Well it’s official! Der Rosenkavalier coming back to @garsingtonopera.bsky.social next year. Looking forward to reviving it where it started, without the covid restrictions on stage and in the auditorium!

Bye bye Bergamo. You’ve been good to me.

We’ve opened Zoraida di Granata at the Donizetti Festival in Bergamo! Teatro sociale in the citta alta. One act to go

Here we go! Dress rehearsal of Zoraida di Granata here at the Teatro Sociale in Bergamo for the Donizetti Festival. Stunning theatre

Last lighting tweaks before the dress rehearsal of Zoraida di Granata here at the Donizetti Festival in Bergamo

Tonight, dress rehearsal of Donizetti’s Roberto Devereux at the Teatro Donizetti here in Bergamo. I’ve never heard it and looking forward. Directed by #StephenLangridge

Just celebrating beauty and humanity. Reading with a negroni on the hills above Bergamo, in the sun, on my day off, with delicious free extra bits to savour. Trying Bluesky thinking.