Saw a filmed performance of Richard Wagner's Siegfried at the Nova on Sunday. The Metropolitan Opera's 2011 production. Fell in love with Siegfried for the first time. This after seeing the two Adelaide Ring Cycles. American Edward Cook as Siegfried in 1998 and Canadian Gary Ridout in 2004. A niggling suspicion that one of those may have been … [Read more...] about Siegfried
Archives for July 2012
Lively Reading
Read two good books by Penelope Lively this month: her latest, How It All Began and a much earlier one Passing On. I liked the earlier novel best. Cared more about the characters- a brother and sister both middle aged, both living at home with their mother in a small village (shades of Midsomer Murders), coming to terms with her death. Monstrous … [Read more...] about Lively Reading
Spies and Philosophers
I am going backwards to review a couple of books I read before plunging back into the life of Cromwell and which I recommend. I read William Boyd's Waiting For Sunrise a while ago and enjoyed it very much. Back to his spying genre, last seen in Reckless which I think was better. In the latter, an older woman, trained as a spy during the Second … [Read more...] about Spies and Philosophers