Measures aimed to discourage the spread of the coronavirus COVID-19 were announced by the British Prime Minister on Monday evening 16 March 2020. These included strong advice to practise 'social distancing' as a precaution, quite apart from any personal necessity to embark on self-isolation.
This has resulted in the closure of galleries, museums, theatres, opera houses, cinemas and concert halls. Consequently this blog will fall silent for the foreseeable future - not for lack of will on my part, but for lack of opportunity.
I wish all my readers well in the meantime.
Wednesday, 18 March 2020
Sunday, 1 March 2020
Madam Butterfly
by Giacomo Puccini, libretto by Giuseppe Giacosa and Luigi Illica
seen at the London Coliseum on 29 February 2020
This is ENO's revival (by no means the first) of Anthony Minghella's 2005 production (here directed by Glen Sheppard), with Natalya Romaniw as Cio-Cio-San (Madam Butterfly), Stephanie Windsor-Lewis as Suzuki, Dimitri Pittas as Pinkerton and Roderick Williams as Consul Sharpless; set design by Michael Levine and costumes by Han Feng.
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