The first day of spring was marked by the last opera of the season. Operas, actually, as it was Cavalleria Rusticana and Pagliacci, which are nearly always paired. Mark Delavan was Alfio in Cav and Tonio in Pag; otherwise, the casts were completely different, but both were excellent.
I was quite taken by the publicity still for Katherine Lerner, a first-year
Ryan Opera Center member who sang Lola. It has a rather Julia Margaret Cameron quality about it,
don't you think? The weather today was actually spring-like! Mid-fifties, very nice.
This morning, I took the car in for an oil change, and had them look at a tire that seemed a bit low to me. It had a nail in the sidewall! So I had to get a new tire, too.