The last roses of summer here in my Lewes garden.
It is a glorious day here in Lewes in Southern England but tonight we are promised our first frost. My roses don’t want to know this so I am keeping quiet about it but just in case, I thought I…
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Viva l’Italia! – wolfie is learning Italian.
“Ieri sera ho iniziato un corso di 20 settimane in lingua italiana presso l’Università del Sussex” – or, in plain English, last night I started a twenty week course in Italian at Sussex University which is only a five minute…
Joan Sutherland steals the show at her Memorial Service at Westminster Abbey
Joan Sutherland 1926-2010 As you can see above, yesterday I was in London for the Service of thanksgiving For the life and work of Joan Sutherland – one of opera’s greatest voices and, I have to admit it, one of…
Sutherland as Tosca and me forgetting Maria Callas for a moment.
After all the obituaries of the great Australian soprano, including my quite personal recollections last week here on this site, I thought i had said my last words on Joan Sutherland but then I came across this clip on Utube…
My schoolboy crush on an Australian singer called Joan Sutherland
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…