Category: travel

Arty fartisan

May 19, 2016Christopher Gillett1 Commentfood, travel

As any opera singer will tell you, it’s important to have stuff to do to keep you sane while you’re away from home. Some knit, some watch a lot of sport, some paint… I used to paint, but since the restrictions on liquids in hand luggage, the packing of my kit has become too…

Sweeney Tart

May 7, 2016Christopher Gillettopera, travel

I’m in Brussels for two months, singing in Sweeney Todd for La Monnaie. I was supposed to be singing in Mark Grey’s new opera Frankenstein, but renovations at the opera house have overrun (who could possibly have predicted that?) and the elaborate set for Frankenstein wouldn’t fit into La Monnaie’s temporary home, a semi-rigid…

On the town

Apr 25, 2016Christopher Gillett1 Commentfood, travel

Change is happening in Bradford on Avon, the small town I call home. When we moved here twenty years ago, there were two butchers, three if you include the one in the old independent supermarket, now a Co-op, at the top of town. There were also two greengrocers, two bakers, a rather dreary cheese shop…

Nuggets und Jetons

Jul 6, 2015Christopher Gillettopera, travel, writings on music

A piece I wrote about Central City Opera, published in Opernwelt. Oper Central City Full English version: BABY DOE’S ROCKIES Landing at Denver airport can be unsettling for the unprepared Brit. If, like me, you set off from the gate at a good lick, eager to overtake the dawdlers, you quickly find yourself wheezing, your…

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