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January 28, 2022

Friday Film Review: Falling for Figaro

LaylaB+ Reviews / Film ReviewsFriday Film Review / opera / Opera Singer / Scotland / village3 Comments

Falling for Figaro (2021) Genre: Romantic Comedy Grade B+ I was on an airplane and everyone knows that you watch movies on airplanes that you don’t normally watch at home (at least that’s true for me!). As I scrolled through the list, an image popped out at me. The cover ... more >

June 25, 2021

REVIEW: The Witness for the Dead by Katherine Addison

JanineBook Reviews / C- Reviewsclergy / diversity / elves / Fantasy / funeral / goblins / grief / investigation / LGBTQIAP+ / loner / murder / mystery / opera / queer characters / steampunk / traumatic-past16 Comments

Dear Katherine Addison, I am a huge fan of your 2014 steampunk fantasy novel The Goblin Emperor. It was my favorite of all the books I read that year and I’ve read it three more times since. When the novel was nominated for a Hugo, I was thrilled; when it ... more >

September 24, 2020

REVIEW: Magic Flutes by Eva Ibbotson

JayneB Reviews / Book ReviewsAustria / class differences / England / Historical / music / opera / post WWI / self made man / social privilege / Vienna8 Comments

In the spring of 1922, young Austrian Princess Theresa-Maria – known to her ancient aunts as ‘Putzerl’ – abandons her crumbling castle and her royal duties. Disguising herself simply as Tessa, she enrolls as under wardrobe mistress of the International Opera Company and soon loses herself in the intoxicating world ... more >

November 22, 2018

REVIEW: Elusive Harmony (The Warrender Saga Book 10) by Mary Burchell

JayneB Reviews / Book Reviews1970s / classical music / fathers and daughters / opera / Opera Singer / Warrender Saga2 Comments

Lindley Harding was a singer nearing the end of his career; Laurence Morven was a new star-and rival-coming up over the horizon. And Lindley’s daughter Natalie, who loved them both, found herself torn two ways as the bitterness grew between the two men. Was the situation going to ruin her ... more >

May 5, 2017

JOINT REVIEW: Music of the Heart (Warrender Saga Book 6) by Mary Burchell

SunitaA Review Category / B Reviews Category / Book Reviews / Recommended ReadsEngland / joint review / Musicians / opera / Opera Singer / Warrender Saga9 Comments

Recommended Read

Every family has its secrets… When Gail Rostall is invited to her good friend Oliver Bannister’s family home, she has no idea he was one of the Bannisters – the most distinguished musical family in the country. Nor had she any idea that Oliver’s brother was the famous composer Marcus ... more >

April 18, 2016

JOINT REVIEW: Secrets of a Soprano by Miranda Neville

JanineB- Reviews / Book Reviewsjoint review / opera / Opera Singer / viscount / widow9 Comments

Robin and I have both enjoyed Miranda Neville’s novels in the past. When a recent review request for her self-published novel, Secrets of a Soprano, arrived in our inboxes, both of us jumped on it. We decided to review the book together. –Janine Janine: Fittingly, Secrets of a Soprano begins ... more >

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