Thomas Salmon

May 8, 2024 | roobla.com | Dan Green |Thomas Salmon |Derek Eppinger

With the semi-finals (nearly) done and dusted, and the 2024 line-up (nearly) complete, the stage is set in Sweden, so what better time for Roobla to launch its first Eurovision feature in several years. Before we hand over to the Malmö Arena, here’s an irreverent A-Z of the world’s most wonderfully loopy singing competition. A is for Australia. This will be their ninth time in Europe’s premier talent show. It’s still not completely clear as to why, but who cares?

Sep 22, 2023 | roobla.com | Dan Green |Thomas Salmon |Derek Eppinger |Patrick Mclean

It’s been the best part of a year since yours truly discovered his hidden culture vulture during a Boxing Night performance of Tchaikovsky‘s The Nutcracker at the Hungarian Opera House. With Napoli firmly in my sights, what better country than Italy to take things a step further with a night at the opera? Now it was Puccini’s turn to dazzle with Madame Butterfly, and I could hardly wait.

Jan 26, 2023 | roobla.com | Thomas Salmon |Patrick Mclean |Derek Eppinger

A year ago I went to London’s Haymarket Theatre to see Only Fools and Horses the Musical. After that night, I’d found my inner culture-vulture, but a night at the Opera was perhaps still pushing it a little. Ballet? Well, that was another matter altogether, but a yuletide trip to Budapest was to change all that.