Planning for Plan B (and missing Akhenaten in Berlin!)

One of this April’s blogs was meant to be another article reflecting my passion for the music of Philip Glass—specifically a review of the new production of Akhnaten at the Komische Oper Berlin. I’d been looking forward to it for months, tickets booked, hotel sorted, and calendar cleared. But as with many things in life—and indeed, in conflict—things didn’t quite go to plan. A last-minute illness meant I had to cancel the trip and focus on recovering ahead of another major journey to Australia and New Zealand.