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In and around London
Dvorak Requiem from @wimbledon-choral.bsky.social at Southwark Cathedral this evening 👏🏻
November 15, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Remembrance Sunday at Lincoln's Inn #London
November 9, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Mark Hamill/Star Wars
Tom Hulce/Amadeus
Anthony Perkins/Psycho
Tim Curry/Rocky Horror
Renée Jeanne Falconetti/The Passion of Joan of Arc

All extraordinary performances - and (without being too reductive) essentially, one-hit wonders. Who else?
November 9, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Greenwich looking fine today 👌🏼
November 8, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Did Lenin & Stalin really meet under this clock in The Crown pub in Clerkenwell in 1903?
November 8, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Excellent first night's performance of Jake Heggie's opera Dead Man Walking at ENO. And one of the great [sic] performances in this or any other house from Christine Rice, as Sister Helen Prejean.
November 1, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Sacre Coeur, Notre Dame, Saint Chapelle, Tour Eiffel. We saw other stuff last week but this visit was unashamed tourism, so Vive la Rébublique 🇫🇷
October 31, 2025 at 8:50 PM
I'm having a week on the Weald, what of it?
October 31, 2025 at 4:49 PM
The outstanding Wes Anderson wall at the Uckfield Picturehouse Restaurant
October 31, 2025 at 12:08 PM
UNESCO World Heritage site(s) St Martin's Church and St Augustine's Abbey, Canterbury. The latter now a ruin but still substantial with the footprint of its legacy
October 29, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Tonight: Chris Marker's La Jetée (1962). So spare, so strong. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6anM...
Chris Marker, La Jetee, 1962
YouTube video by Whitechapel Gallery
www.youtube.com
October 12, 2025 at 9:52 PM
"Deep down you could say that this country [the UK] has never accepted opera... in the same way they have in Germany [etc.]"
About 35mins in www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
This Cultural Life - Thomas Adès - BBC Sounds
Composer and conductor Thomas Adès reveals his formative creative influences.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 12, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Watched A Bout de Souffle (1960) last night. Wondered whether the footage of "Eisenhower on the Champs Elysées with de Gaulle" was real. It is 👌🏼 youtu.be/OBvzGubw2Ug?...
Eisenhower In France (1959)
YouTube video by British Pathé
youtu.be
October 12, 2025 at 5:30 PM
"... located in an area of natural horror." Good effort 🎃 #halloween
October 11, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Lovely walk from Chiswick to Hammersmith at the weekend, tipping the hat to various local artists #London
October 6, 2025 at 5:50 AM
At the chapel of Lincoln's Inn, central London, consecrated by John Donne just over 400 years ago. Came across this poem of Donne's recently: The Good-Morrow www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44104/...
September 27, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Duke Spectre's Castle at the RBO tonight 🤷🏼‍♀️ #Dvorak
September 20, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Woo woo 💫
September 19, 2025 at 9:03 PM
This video is AMAZING (TW: and also a bit sexist) youtu.be/18V0DJvPRdI?...
1964: The GUNS of JAMES BOND | Time Out | Making of... | BBC Archive
YouTube video by BBC Archive
youtu.be
September 17, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Leontine Price is not on this list, so dismissed out of hand www.telegraph.co.uk/music/classi...
The 10 greatest operatic sopranos of all time, ranked
Sopranos – the highest voices in the operatic repertory – have dominated the musical landscape. Here are my favourites
www.telegraph.co.uk
September 15, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Quality 👏🏻🎵🇬🇧🎶 (via www.facebook.com/share/p/16vn...)
September 14, 2025 at 7:09 AM
Such a London day. Kiefer/Van Gogh at the RA, sushi on Brewer St., coffee at the Algerian Coffee shop Old Compton St. then the last day of Watteau at the British Museum 👌🏼
September 13, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Handsome place. New era starting on 11 September with new artistic director Jakub Hrůša's first performance 🤞🏻
September 10, 2025 at 5:51 AM
I'm watching a show youtu.be/HJ5EGCxbx1g?...
QUANTUM OF SOLACE | Quantum Meeting at the Opera
YouTube video by James Bond 007
youtu.be
September 9, 2025 at 6:57 PM