Category: Getting Outside
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After the After Party at Vancouver Opera
Ahh…La Clemenza di Tito…such a beautiful night at the Vancouver Opera performance. So wonderful. I offer my sincerest thank yous to the Vancouver Opera Social Media Manager, Ling Chan. Ling is the picture of grace under all sorts of pressure. On opening night of the opera she appears calm and peaceful while I can only…
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La Clemenza di Tito; After the Curtain
Here I thought that Tito had been killed at the end of Act I. In fact, Sesto thought that the fire he had started had killed Tito, but no! Tito, of course lived. Rome was in ruins after the fire but mercifully, Tito lived. More about the opera itself a little later. For now, the…
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La Clemenza di Tito at Vancouver Opera
We are now in the Queen Elizabeth Theatre preparing ourselves for the backstage tour of the theatre. It is funny to think about this opera; Mozart wrote it in the last year of his life and completed it in no time at all. His “inspiration” was the fact that he was in desperate need of…
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Vancouver Opera; Opening Night
Tonight Vancouver Opera opens their run of Mozart’s most magnificent final opera, La Clemenza di Tito. And I will be there, live-blogging for your benefit. Unless you choose to come to the opera and see it with me. The question of the day then, what boots will I wear this evening when I go to…
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Vancouver Opera’s La Clemenza di Tito; Saturday Night, Opening Night
From the sounds of David Gordon Duke writing in the Vancouver Sun, I am in for a treat this Saturday when the Vancouver Opera opens their production of La Clemenza di Tito. “It’s a sensational piece. The music is just phenomenal,” Darlington says. “Every time I open the score, I realize I’m just touching the…
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Evergreen Cultural Centre Performance of The Great Mountain
Here is a last minute shout out for an excellent performance taking place in Coquitlam’s Evergreen Cultural Centre on this Sunday, January 30th; The Great Mountain. The Great Mountain is an adventure story that inspires, entertains and captures the imagination of kids and families alike. Using theatre, dance and music, we follow the journey of…
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Lucia di Lammermoor; the Opera of the Season
It is the morning after opening night of Vancouver Opera’s Lucia di Lammermoor. I felt the need to post a few post-opera thoughts. First, the Vancouver opera crowded needed Lucia di Lammermoor. Vancouver Opera pushed the creative envelope with Nixon in China and again with Lillian Alling. With Lucia di Lammermoor Vancouver Opera returned to…
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Blogger Night at the Vancouver Opera; Lucia di Lammermoor
I have just now set up at the bloggers table for Vancouver Opera’s opening night of Lucia di Lammermoor. I have to admit that I was following the Opera Ninja on Twitter the other night so I consider myself forewarned – this is not a happy love story. Wow. A guy just walked by and…
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Lucia di Lammermoor
Tonight is the night! I am off to see Lucia di Lammermoor at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre tonight. What I have been told is to be sure to bring many tissues with me to the performance. I have been warned.
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The Fairmont Empress, Victoria, BC
Last Wednesday I left Metro Vancouver and headed over to Vancouver Island to chase down a couple of the BC Liberal leadership front-runners on behalf of The Left Coast. While in Victoria I was put up in the “iconic” Fairmont Empress Hotel. Walking into a hotel lobby like the Empress is like walking back in…