There exists a genuine mystery at the heart
“I believe that there exists a genuine mystery at the heart of songwriting. Certain lines can appear at the time
Thinking about culture as if people mattered
“I believe that there exists a genuine mystery at the heart of songwriting. Certain lines can appear at the time
Reading about ‘La Gata Perduda‘ in these posts must be a somewhat frustrating experience. After all, it has often been
Nature doesn’t have a sense of humour, so it’s just coincidence that I’ve caught my first dose of Covid-19 in
But for the first two hundred years of its life spectacle, associated in particular with stage technology – referred to
Between the Traction opera performances in the prison last week, and those that will take place in Lisbon at the
Three days ago, anticipating the first performance of the Leiria prison opera, I wrote that I didn’t expect to see
In the dusty hall of a disused prison workshop, 30 people shuffle into a big circle. Silence falls. They draw
This essay is a slightly revised version of a chapter in Where We Dream, West Bromwich Operatic Society and the
For decades, longer even, cultural policy in Europe has been imagined as a conflict between two ideas. The first is
In January 2021, for the first time in my life, I wrote a long, detailed outline for a community art