A complaint often laid at the feet of the so-called European capital, Brussels, is that it is a boring and humourless place. Trump charmingly called it a “hellhole”, and the French poet Charles Baudelaire called it a “city of apes” after he was forced to leave Paris in disgrace.
Sparkling cast lifts Wagner’s Götterdämmerung to new heights
My first visit to Longborough Festival Opera proved a delight.