Reasons why this weekend was the Best Weekend ( Read more... )

Well, summer is rapidly approaching (today's freezing rain notwithstanding), and you know what that means: opera season! For those of us in a state with an open-air opera house, anyway ( Read more... )

There's something wonderfully appropriate in watching Faust performed at an open-air theater in the middle of a massive lightning storm. We were too far off for thunder, but every time Mephistopheles cackled the whole sky lit up ( Read more... )

What is this, a three day weekend where I am actually putting on pants and leaving the house, and not just lazing around like a bum? Crazy, I know. I'm half worried to look into the mirror, in case I turned into my mirrorverse self without realizing it, and suddenly sprouted a dashing goatee. This is what I've got going on this unusually-long ( Read more... )

So, the last week and a half has been a clusterfuck of tremendous proportions, and I don't even want to complain about it, because it's all just stupid and stressful (and completely my fault). Instead, here is a list of things that have nothing to do with each other except being awesome and making me happy recently ( Read more... )

OH GOD I JUST BOUGHT TICKETS TO THE RING CYCLE ( Read more... )

It's...it's morally wrong to punch old people, right ( Read more... )

What can I say about Don Giovanni? It's basically a romantic comedy about a wealthy Italian playboy trying to make new sexual conquests while his bitter ex-lovers and their significant others try to foil him...and it ends with the lead character getting sucked into the bowels of hell. So more than a little absurdist (and Mozart laid the sexual ( Read more... )

The good operas are never long enough. La Traviata could have lasted a week and I would have been happy. What a wonderful production ( Read more... )

The absence of bad news can still be considered good news, yes ( Read more... )