This month I’m launching Backgrounders, a monthly illustrated intensive look into a person or event in the arts news that I don’t have space for on Ruth Leon’s Theatrewise. Please let me know if you’d like to receive Backgrounders. There […]
Puccini’s adaptation of the novel by Abbé Prévost had a complicated gestation. An alarmingly long list of librettists attempted to satisfy the composer’s demands in terms of dramatic structure and fine verbal detail. Was Puccini […]
Itinéraire Baroque en Périgord, 2024: L’Iinéraire. Various Locations, 3.8.2024 La Gracieuse Robert Smith (viola da gamba); Mike Fentross (theorbo). Église Saint-Laurent de Mareuil, 0930. Marais Suite in A (Book 2). Suite in G minor […]