Day three in San Francisco was a fun one, if busy ( Read more... )

Saturday was an early start, as the boat was to depart at 8:00 am and there were several admonishments to be on time or be left behind ( Read more... )

Have I still not posted about all the San Francisco stuff? Shame on me ( Read more... )

Again, so, so sorry for my silence ( Read more... )

It seems the opera gods love me today ( Read more... )

I'm not sure how the Fates are supposed to teach me to keep a budget if, when I break it, they just give me more money.

( Maybe it's that the Fates love opera as much as I do )

October 26th: Moby Dick (Ben Heppner as Ahab) - Balcony Rear
October 28th: Lohengrin - Balcony Circle
October 30th: Moby Dick (Jay Hunter Morris as Ahab) - Box Seat

*squee*

Cate

The Plan:

About three weeks ago, I applied to a highly respected Canadian writing school, for a week long residency, in the genre of "Writing for Children", which is being taught by Janet McNaughton (whose novel An Earthly Knight, I adore enough to have read three times and have reviewed twice on this blog). I should hear by the end of July if I' ( Read more... )

Okay, it wasn't really a secret, but I didn't tell everyone about it because I was terrified that something would jinx it.

Yesterday, after Götterdämmerung I had the pleasure of taking one of my all-time favourite authors out to dinner ( Read more... )

It's over! *sob*

What's interesting about the Cycle is that Wagner took a decade long break in the middle of Siegfried, so the music of Götterdämmerung is very different than what came before -- but it's still built around the system of leitmotifs that he established in the first three operas. The result is that the music of Götterdåmmerung is ( Read more... )