Lyn RichardsMar 20, 20236 minFinale! Ending an OperaThe end of a novel or play or a musical composition is always a challenge. It has to arrive, to conclude a journey, bring together the...
Lyn RichardsMar 15, 20235 minJust a seaside bromance?How can Bizet’s two best-known operas be so different – in so short a lifetime? Between the early, much criticised mythical and romantic...
Lyn RichardsFeb 28, 20237 minBeauty, handsomeness, goodness: Billy BuddThe book (1891) In his novel Billy Budd, Sailor (An Inside Narrative), Herman Melville set – on the ocean of course – a story of evil...
Lyn RichardsFeb 14, 20236 minA Whale of an Opera: Moby-DickFrom the book to the film, then to the opera. We’ve seen this pattern before but in the making of Moby-Dick, the journey has been...