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The Royal Opera House 2021-2022 opera season

2 June 2021 by Gramilano Leave a Comment

Anna Netrebko as Leonora in La forza del destino, The Royal Opera © 2019 ROH. Photograph by Bill Cooper

The Royal Opera Season will open with a new production of Verdi’s Rigoletto, directed by Oliver Mears – his first production since becoming The Royal Opera’s Director of Opera in 2017. This new … [Read more...] about The Royal Opera House 2021-2022 opera season

Robert Powell returns as Jesus in London’s National Portrait Gallery

16 September 2013 by Gramilano Leave a Comment

For the first time the National Portrait Gallery opens a display space of prints made from portraits from its collections - which visitors can buy! Sir Michael Gambon, Robert Powell, Antony … [Read more...] about Robert Powell returns as Jesus in London’s National Portrait Gallery

Critics round-up: Richard III with Kevin Spacey

1 July 2011 by Gramilano Leave a Comment

Well the critics loved much, if not all, of the Bridge Project's much anticipated swan song production of Richard III with Kevin Spacey. The production is now at London's Old Vic theatre before going … [Read more...] about Critics round-up: Richard III with Kevin Spacey

Critics round-up: Betty Blue Eyes – A pig takes over the West End as Cameron Mackintosh brings home the bacon

14 April 2011 by Gramilano Leave a Comment

Cameron Mackintosh hasn't lost his magic touch, and after 10 years without a new musical he's come up with Betty Blue Eyes which has delighted the critics. It's a musical about a pig, the animal kind, … [Read more...] about Critics round-up: Betty Blue Eyes – A pig takes over the West End as Cameron Mackintosh brings home the bacon

Betty Blue Eyes goes into previews in a week’s time – a very British musical!

12 March 2011 by Gramilano Leave a Comment

In a week's time, preview performances start for the new Cameron Mackintosh musical Betty Blue Eyes. Adapted from Alan Bennett and Malcolm Mowbray’s film “A Private Function”, the story centres … [Read more...] about Betty Blue Eyes goes into previews in a week’s time – a very British musical!

Goodbye 10…..

31 December 2010 by Gramilano Leave a Comment

The Stage's Mark Shelton looks on a year that has devided, as all years, critical opinion. Birdsong, Love Never Dies, panto and the already legendary Spider-Man: Turn off the Dark. In A Chorus Line, … [Read more...] about Goodbye 10…..

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GRAHAM SPICER

Writer, director and photographer in Milan, blogging (under the name ‘Gramilano’) about dance, opera, music and photography for people who are a bit like me and like some of the things I like. I was a regular columnist for Opera Now magazine and wrote for the BBC until transferring to Italy. My scribblings have appeared in various publications from Woman’s Weekly to Gay Times. I write the ‘Danza in Italia’ column for Dancing Times magazine.

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