I hope that offering excerpts of various works will tempt you into a concert hall for some of the most beautiful music ever written, if…
I came to see Toulouse, the Pink City, when I could catch a production of La Traviata. This is my story of a screw-up that turned out fine; and I share great aria links.
My 2023 cultural events calendar, from Amsterdam to Toulouse. Do our tastes coincide?
Back-to-back stellar performances at Amsterdam's Concertgebouw were high points of my long stretch of travel this year. I even got to speak to the principal artists after the events!
The beautiful Opéra-Comédie of Montpellier, with some outstanding conductors and excellent performers and productions, has quickly become a favorite destination of mine.
A chance to see an opera while seeing Limoges for the first time I had hoped we'd get to Limoges, which we'd never been to,…
As I'm often mentioning operas and concerts I'm attending, and you can see them in my reports on performances attended in 2022 and performances booked…
I couldn't resist booking a ticket for Handel's Il trionfo del tempo e del disinganno when I saw it scheduled by the Berlin Philharmonic. Handel's…
One of my strongest wishes is to live where there is a cultural season that will make me happy. May be beyond my means, but…
The unforgettable Grand Place of Brussels I first saw Brussels with its astounding Grand Place when I was ten years old. And I never forgot…
As I wrote when I started this blog, after my years in the countryside of Virginia and after the first year-plus of Covid isolation and…
I've been looking at restaurants in my hotel/opera district in Vienna, and am finding some interesting options. One, a Chinese restaurant called Hao Noodle and…