FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS
This is not a book, it is a lecture. As much as I may not be 100% fan of Hemingway as a person, with his macho agenda and his passion for...
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luismasutier
May 5, 20165 min read
TWO BEASTS ON STAGE
This week, London’s poshest stages -Covent Garden’s Royal Opera House and English National Opera’s Coliseum- have both an incredible...
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luismasutier
Apr 27, 20153 min read
OLE LA NEGRA GUAPA
Woman, beauty, passionate, barefoot, artist, friend, lover, direct, wise, black, powerful, bisexual, singer, emotive, crazy, medium,...
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luismasutier
Apr 8, 20152 min read
I HEARD YOU SINGING
The Rosenblatt series presented tonight a very English recital: tenor Ben Johnson and pianist James Baillieu performed a programme full...
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luismasutier
Feb 10, 20153 min read
SAIMIR PIRGU, THE SILVER HORN
He has sung with Gheorghiu, Domingo and DiDonato; he has starred in the Met, La Scala and the Royal Opera House; he is one of the most...
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luismasutier
Jan 5, 20153 min read
SUN AND MOON
Patience can lead to excellence. I am not a very patient person, but I can be very constant when I want something. And I really wanted to...
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luismasutier
Nov 27, 20141 min read
25849 AKA WHAT DO MOUSETRAPS SMELL OF?
It could be a Spanish Christmas lottery number, or the distance in meters to your work, or the price of that car you like with all its...
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luismasutier
Nov 9, 20143 min read
CRISTINA, REGINA DI SVEZIA
David Beck’s portrait of Christina, Queen of Sweden Every opera composer would like to think that their works will keep being performed...
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luismasutier
Nov 1, 20141 min read
MO BRO
This year I’m doing Movember to make people aware of the threat of Prostrate Cancer: I’ve shaved today and during the whole month I’ll...
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luismasutier
Oct 15, 20142 min read
SUK & SALOMON BEWITCHED ME
Magic happens everywhere. You just need to keep your senses aware to feel it. Last night I allowed it to myself and it was incredibly...
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luismasutier
Oct 1, 20142 min read
HE WHO PAINTS WITH WORDS
I have always been a perfectionist, aiming to reach something that is impossible, because the moment you get to be perfect you’re...
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luismasutier
Sep 24, 20142 min read
THE BRAVE SLACKLINER
Brave, passionate and very talented. This was London’s first impression of the stratospheric tenor Javier Camarena, in one of the...
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luismasutier
Aug 24, 20142 min read
A TASTE OF THE PROMS
I was invited last night to that big musical festival of classical music that is the BBC Proms: thousands of people fill up the Royal...
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luismasutier
Aug 2, 20144 min read
GAZA CATASTROPHE: WE ARE TO BLAME
I just can’t stay silent anymore. I’ve been brewing up this idea for a couple of weeks now and I need to spit it out: The UN, the...
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luismasutier
Jul 19, 20141 min read
ADAM (I) AKA ASPERGERS LOVE TOO
Don’t you love it when something unexpected makes you enjoy? This is just what happened to me tonight watching this 2009 movie. A love...
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luismasutier
Jul 17, 20141 min read
NO ENTRY? HA!
In a country with so many rules for everything, it’s super cool to find that there are witty people making fun as well as art out of some...
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luismasutier
May 5, 20143 min read
RATHER ‘BURIED’ THAN ‘LOCKE’D
Doing things without expectations is always good: you disintegrate any chance of deception, to start with; and anything good you get...
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luismasutier
Apr 29, 20142 min read
SELF-XTREM
It’s obvious when you hear a genius playing. He’s just something else, she’s radically true to herself, they are unique. Sergio Tiempo is...
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luismasutier
Apr 28, 20142 min read
MIND-BLOWING VOICE
If you wanna see a show, a business-marketed performance with choreographies, fireworks and all kind of delights for your senses, this...
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luismasutier
Mar 24, 20141 min read
BATTERSEA'S GOT THE POWER
I am totally in love with London’s beauty, sometimes hidden and dimmed by the cast skies. But when the sun shines bright there’s nothing...
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