by Claudia Pritchard | Sep 20, 2026 | Music
Lisette Oropesa in the title role and Emily d’Angelo as Ruggiero in Alcina/ Photo: Ian Hippolyte Royal Opera/David Bates Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, 15 September 2026 Like the Venus flytrap in her greenhouse, the eponymous enchantress Alcina snaps up the... 
by Claudia Pritchard | Sep 17, 2026 | Music
Waterperry Opera/Charles Court Opera/David Eaton Wilton’s Music Hall, London E1, 14 September Donizetti’s evergreen opera The Elixir of Love moves from sunny Italy to English apple country in Waterperry Opera’s effervescent production, first seen in the Oxfordshire... 
by Neil Young | Sep 14, 2026 | Film, Uncategorized
426. That’s my best-guess estimate for the number of film-festivals I’ve attended since my professional involvement started with them in 1999 — “attended” meaning, as I define it, at least a three-night stay; otherwise it’s just a...