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It's a relief when you go to an opera you don't know and realise at the final curtain that you need never see it again. Not that...

We have just returned from our friendly multiplex cinema, where we went to see  Eugene Onegin  beamed from the Royal Opera House. Since se...

It was Kenneth Tynan who coined the phrase "high definition performance". Tonight's Film Society film, last night's Ro...

I took this photograph in 1999, when we were walking along a strada bianca near Pienza: it hardly does justice to the lichen, an extraord...

Our dynamic New Zealander handyman, Arden, descended upon us early this morning, to dismantle a built-in cupboard. In the clearing out proce...

I've been Listening Again to the Royal Opera House's La Traviata, broadcast on New Year's Eve (when I missed it). No performance...

On Boxing Night, Caroline and I endured a grim night at Cineworld: Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows looked the best of a poor selection, ...

I last visited the magnificent Palladian Harewood House whilst on my bike trip through Yorkshire in May 2009. The current (7th) Earl clearly...

Today's Guardian has a "Spanish Spirit" supplement, which says the best known Churriguera retablo mayor is in the church of S...