January: Tim Green in Calgary, Canada, for a skiing trip [photo, Tim Green]

March: Arrived Munich, first port of call the Augustiner for a bretzel (someone special hiding behind partly eaten specimen), wurst and beer [photo, Esteban Insausti]

March: Esteban Insausti & Agnes Bezjek at Munich’s Nationaltheater for Rigoletto premiere. “First paying homage to the house architect Karl von Fischer” [photo, Esteban Insausti]

March: Nationaltheater’s Rigoletto cutrain call [photo, Esteban Insausti]

March: “Wonderful Das Rheingold conducted by Simone Young at Milan’s Teatro alla Scala” [photo, David May]

March: Simone Young in Las Scala’s Das Rheingold curtain calls [photo, David May]