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Feverish Figaro
To the ENO for the Marriage of Figaro last night, with around 20 fellow Onegin chorus members, which added to the entertainment value. We went because Kate Valentine, who sang Tatyana in our production of Eugene Onegin, is singing the Countess, and very relieved we were that she was singing the Countess, as she missed…
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Feasting the senses
It’s been a bit of an indulgent weekend, feasting our senses, and there’s more to come. We started with the visual and a trip to the Guildhall Art Gallery in the heart of the city for an exhibition of John Atkinson Grimshaw paintings. Grimshaw started out as a bit of a fellow traveller with the…
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Songs from the Edge
Our local church, St Augustine’s on One Tree Hill, likes music and as a consequence sees more of us than they would otherwise. Last night there was more reason than usual to go, as our friends Mel, Katrina and Laura were playing. The evening was entitled Songs from the Edge: The edge of what, I…
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The Passenger
So the Wendy Dawn Thompson Fan Club (Blackheath Chapter) were out in force last night, Me and A, M and D (separately, we thought they were going a different night and bumped into them in the bar). I have to admit I would not have gone to The Passenger if WDT (Vlasta) hadn’t been in…
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Essex extremes
I do like a mix and match day. So we started with a couple of kilometres of walking round Rainham Marshes bird reserve. Not many birds to see, but there’s not much to beat a marsh in the sun; a beautiful morning, a stolen September summer Sunday, wandering about in shirtsleeves with the end of…
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Singing for Water
What a great day of singing. My feet are feeling it, but we’ve had a superb day out, doing what we love best, and raised some money for charity in the process. Our sponsorship page will function for another three months, but no need to wait, donate now! Please!! Around 800 people, representing over 50…
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Sing for Water final preparations
It’s been a manic couple of days, we drove home from holiday yesterday, had showers and went out again, to North London for a final Raise the Roof rehearsal for Sing for Water. Mel hosted a tight squeeze in her flat, and everyone brought food and drink. A boiling hot evening, all the windows open…
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Opening Doors to the ‘Other Side’
In a previous post I mentioned that I thought I might be missing out in not having seen a variety of operas. I’ve started making up for it. The advantage of doing a community opera of the calibre of Blackheath’s is that you get to meet people who know a thing or two, and this…
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Sing for Water- rehearsals
For the past few weeks A and I have been rehearsing for Sing for Water, a concert in London to raise money for Wateraid. The concert takes place on September 11th at 2pm, in the Scoop, next to City Hall on the South bank of the Thames. Not surprisingly a number of the songs have…
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The Blackheath Onegin book launched
Most of my free waking hours since finishing the opera (apart from work, singing, partying, holidays…) have been spent fighting with the software to get the book to look beautiful. Anyone planning to do a photobook on Blurb be warned you need a lot of free RAM. It does very strange things, like randomly copying…
Cherry Potts, Writer 