Tag: live-blogging

  • Vancouver Opera’s La Traviata Back Stage Party

    Truly a fabulous evening at Vancouver Opera’s opening night of LA Traviata. I will post more a little later but for now I will just add these photos; First is this pic of me and Sir Jonathan Miller, yes, “Sir” meaning he has been knighted. However, he much prefers to be addressed as Doctor Miller.…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Follow-up to our Night at the Opera; Madama Butterfly

    Well it is the morning after the night before. We are home and the twins are safe and sound having survived an evening with my Sweetheart and I out of the house. So some thoughts on the opening night of Madama Butterfly… Exquisite…beautiful…simple and yet beautiful beyond words…moving…heart-breaking and it all hit so close to…

  • Live-Blogging Vancouver Opera Madama Butterfly

    6:30pm We have now arrived at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre in Vancouver and are settling in for the Vancouver Opera performance of Madama Butterfly. We will be taking a backstage tour in a few minutes. 7pm We have completed our tour of the backstage of the opera set. My colleague blogger, The Anthology said that…

  • Live-Blogging the Vancouver Opera’s Madama Butterfly

    Hey did I tell you that tomorrow evening I am going to be live-blogging the Vancouver opera production of Madama Butterfly?! So sweet. I will have backstage access and I am invited to the post-production party for the opening night!!  Dontcha know StaceyRobinsmith.com is the newest opera live-blogger!!! Stay tuned folks!! (All the exclamation marks are a…

  • Vision Vancouver AGM 2010

    I am currently at the Vision Vancouver 2010 AGM live-blogging the event. If you want to follow the proceedings, join me at www.TheLeftCoast.ca.