Mignon comes to Lewes – where has she been all my life?
Mignon – an opera by Ambroise Thomas. Portrait of Ambroise Thomas (1811 – 1896) in 1834 by Jean-Hippolyte Flandrin I know not all of my readers share my enthusiasm for opera but stay with me…
Mignon – an opera by Ambroise Thomas. Portrait of Ambroise Thomas (1811 – 1896) in 1834 by Jean-Hippolyte Flandrin I know not all of my readers share my enthusiasm for opera but stay with me…
As a rather moody eighteen year old, I had a Summer holiday job working as a waiter in the small and very pretty Sussex village of Alfriston. For over two months I lived in the building on the left of…
I was an excitable schoolboy living in exciting times and I must have had a thing about groups beginning with the letter B. There was The Beatles, of course, the band that turned me on, tuned me in and so…