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wandering: March 2011

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Saturday, 12 March 2011. According to Google Earth, my house is 15,968.78 kilometres from the Metropolitan Opera New York, so it isn't practical to go there as often as I would like. I would have liked to have seen the recent production of. A marvellous work and a turning point in the development of modern opera. So we saw a recording two weeks after the Saturday matinee which was telecast. Good as these transmissions are, it is quite a different experience from being there. When I first saw John Adams'.

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wandering: April 2011

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Sunday, 24 April 2011. The Met has revived for the first time the John Cox production of Richard Strauss’. First seen in 1998 with Kiri Te Kanawa as the Countess. The production brings the period forward from the eighteenth century to the 1920’s. There is a sumptuous and elegant set designed by Mauro Pagono with costumes and interior design by Robert Perdiziola. I think Capriccio is an opera which actually benefits from being performed in a 20. Belongs, with Strauss, in the 20. I couldn’t follow th...

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wandering: Midsummer Night's Dream at ENO

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Friday, 5 August 2011. Midsummer Night's Dream at ENO. Pharaoh told them his dream; but there was. None that could interpret them unto Pharaoh. The new production of Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. By English National Opera was powerful and fascinating. The production was directed by Christopher Alden, three of whose productions I have seen in the last eighteen months. Opera Australia has presented his Tosca. Originally for Opera North, and Partenope, originally for ENO. Made me angry and annoyed.

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wandering: eighth blackbird in Sydney

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Saturday, 24 September 2011. Eighth blackbird in Sydney. When I travelled to Bexhill-on-Sea in May to see eighth blackbird perform. I didn't know they were going to alight much closer to home. On 22 September they gave a concert in The Studio at the Sydney Opera House. I do not know which to prefer,. The beauty of inflections. Or the beauty of innuendoes,. Their Sydney program included two of the pieces I heard them play earlier and four which were new to me. Swedish composer Fabian Svensson. As performe...

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wandering: February 2011

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Sunday, 6 February 2011. Shipping News for 5 February 2011. Made her first visit to Sydney. Her maiden voyage was in June 2010, and she is one of five ships of this line. The ship has length of 198 meters; beam 25.60 meters and a deadweight tonnage of 32,000 metric tonnes. I think this makes her similar in size to the old P&O liners. 2199 m; 27.6m) and. However, carries only 450passengers, less than half the number on the. Rhapsody of the Seas. Rhapsody of the Seas. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Edinburgh ...

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wandering: eighth blackbird

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Sunday, 15 May 2011. I had heard of. Without knowing much about them, and when I saw they were performing at the Barbican in London, I thought it would be an opportunity to catch them. As well as performing a lot of Steve Reich they had a more varied program which included something by. And whose music I happened upon in New York last month. But this program was shown as sold out. It proved to be an excellent adventure:. I heard an exciting concert, experienced the decayed. It was pleasant and well run.

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wandering: January 2013

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Saturday, 5 January 2013. From The Barbican to Waseda. Last July, I went to an early evening concert given by Ben Johnson, tenor and James Baillieu, piano at St. Giles Cripplegate. It was called Postcards from Paris. And comprised songs by Poulenc, Faure, Duparc, Hahn and Lennox Berkeley. Berkeley was not French but, if I need mention, studied with. Nadia Boulanger and spent some time in Paris. Century. It was completely rebuilt in 1390. There was a fire in 1545:. The church is situated to the north of t...

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wandering: August 2011

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Friday, 5 August 2011. Midsummer Night's Dream at ENO. Pharaoh told them his dream; but there was. None that could interpret them unto Pharaoh. The new production of Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. By English National Opera was powerful and fascinating. The production was directed by Christopher Alden, three of whose productions I have seen in the last eighteen months. Opera Australia has presented his Tosca. Originally for Opera North, and Partenope, originally for ENO. Made me angry and annoyed.