My name is Gareth Hiley, aka gazhiley, and I work for a bank in Swansea, South Wales. I mainly gravitate around the Featured Pictures pages, or the Miscilaneous and Entertainment Reference desk pages...

My Interests include Gaming (Consoles and PC), Music, football ( watching and playing), and Driving. I am an iBore by admission!

I am a Swansea City fan, have been a season ticket holder for over 5 years now, and have attended more away games than I care to count!

Some time soon I also hope to start taking photographs to place in articles, and will post links to them here once I have worked out how to do it and own a camera good enough to make quality images!

Picture of the day

A basso porto (At the Lower Harbour) is an opera in three acts by the Italian composer Niccola Spinelli. The opera sets an Italian-language libretto by Eugene Checchi, based on Goffredo Cognetti's 1889 play O voto. It premiered to critical success at the Cologne Opera on April 18, 1894, sung in a German translation by Ludwig Hartmann and Otto Hess. This watercolour illustration depicts the set design by Riccardo Salvadori for act 1 of the opera's premiere. A basso porto is set in the slums of Naples, and Spinelli included mandolins and guitars in his orchestral score.Set design credit: Riccardo Salvadori

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