Ready, steady, and ??go…..

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After months of hibernation, I have booked a whole range of concerts and operas to see in May, June, July and August. We’ll see how much of this actually happens. I’m – in theory – ready to spring into action as below, and plan to go to:

ROHCG – La Clemenza di Tito

Halle Orchestra – 4 concerts and a rehearsal

LSO – concert Yuja playing Rachmaninov PC 2 and MTT conducting Beethoven 5

Opera North-Fidelio

Thomas Ades 50th Birthday – Barbican

Bach weekend – King’s Place

Mirga conducting CBSO in Weinberg

ROHCG Don Giovanni

Plus masses of Buxton Festival stuff. including Handel’s Acis and Galatea, Northern Chamber Orchestra (a fine concert with Schoenberg’s Verklaerte Nacht and R Strauss’ Metamorphosen) and a new musical piece called Brunnhilde’s Dream with Sir John Tomlinson)

ENO Tosca in August

And Holland Park Opera – Cunning Little Vixen, and Hansel and Gretel

Plus, possibly, the Proms…Goodness!!

I’m poised…but will it happen?

We shall see – and I shall report……

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I'm a grandfather, parent, churchwarden, traveller, chair of governors and trustee!. I worked for an international cultural and development organisation for 39 years, and lived for extended periods of time in Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Egypt and Ghana. I know a lot about (classical) music, but not as a practitioner, (particularly noisy late Romantics - Wagner, Mahler, Bruckner, Richard Strauss). I am well travelled and interested in different cultures and traditions. Apart from going to concerts and operas, I love reading, walking in the hills, theatre and wine-making. I'm also a practising Christian, though not of the fierce kind. And I'm into green issues and sustainability.

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