The Life and Opinions of Andrew Rilstone

Dear Andrew, I have been imagining you walking around Bayreuth – I have a pretty good picture of it in my head. I can visualise t...

Dear Opera Buddy O.K. So I have now seen Bob Dylan perform live, heard Parsifal at Bayreuth and met Tom Baker. I can therefore ...

Dear Andrew, I always find coffee problematic in foreign parts - milchkafee should be coffee with milk but for some reason my efforts t...

Dear Andrew,   I really did mean it when I said I wanted to hear from you. When I was learning Latin at school we read Pliny’s letters...

Dear Opera-Buddy So I said I'd give you a running commentary on what is going on in Bavaria. (I hope this is really what you...

I am not what you would call a purist. In the last two years, I have seen Siegmund pull Notung from between Sieglinde's legs; Siegfried ...

Saturday, 10 AM "I shall need a dinner jacket," thought Andrew to himself. "I shall hop on a Bus to glamorous Macclesfield, p...