Two Nilssons for the price of one: my report @Bachtrack from the award of the Birgit Nilsson Prize to the Festival d'Aix-en-Provence. 📸Maja Brandt
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Sakari Oramo guided the BBCSO through a life-affirming Mahler 9 at the Barbican on Saturday - my ★★★★ review for Bachtrack here:
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Ah, lovely Bucharest. Looking very fine this evening for the first night of the Bucharest Opera Festival. Gounod's Faust to come, done by the Bucharest Opera itself.

At Budapest zoo, between Parsifals. Spending the morning with old friends.

The Tempest at Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. Design: amazing. Sound and music: gruesome. Sigourney Weaver: a duke, a duchess, a master? No one seems to be sure.

(not mine, but whoever made it has pierced my soul)

Coincidence? I think not.

The Tower Tavern: a classic of the genre. Complete with orange vinyl banquettes. Many happy memories. Still not as FRP-y as The Windmill just off Tottenham Ct Rd.

Now *this* I am quite pleased with. A copy of Teresa Berganza's memoirs (a rarity in itself). But check out the signed dedication!