A Perfect Rigoletto?
Rigoletto was the first opera I encountered as a young boy. Every Sunday we would go across to Brakpan to have lunch with Grandma. She would cook a chicken (free range in those days) and would stuff...
View ArticleAttila by Verdi: Thoughts on Opera, Mining, Women, and Porn
Here is a picture of a child’s play ground in Iowa. Better we revel in the games of children than contemplate the outcome of these games: tribes, battle, war, death & devastation, or at the least...
View ArticlePurcell Woods, District of North Vancouver in light of Verdi’s Un Giorno Di...
Estate planning is on our minds. This past week a senior colleague spent long periods with his lawyers debating how to dispose of his estate: if I go first then….If my wife goes first then…..What...
View ArticleVerdi’s Attila on Bose
Skipped work a little early today and went and bought the Bose Home Theater system: five small speakers, a small subwoofer, and an elegant receiver. Not cheap, but so good-looking, easy to install,...
View ArticleVerdi’s Falstaff from the MET. A Tribute to Old Men in Mining.
Old men still love, although we seldom succeed. That is the inevitable message of today’s Met HD broadcast of Verdi’s Falstaff. I reflected all the opera on this year’s affair now gone to Quebec,...
View ArticleI Vespri Siciliani by Verdi
From the sublime to the ridiculous: from a grungy apartment far east on Kingsway to I Vespri Siciliani. From the way the poor live to the way the privileged luxuriate. I know I am privileged as a...
View ArticleLa Forze Del Destino. Nazis, Apartheid, Gays, and Arizona.
On a cold winter’s night I watched Verdi’s La Forza Del Destino. Verdi was agnostic, yet this opera is suffused with Christian themes. “Come find thy salvation in the shadow of the cross.” The story...
View ArticleUBC Opera at Bard on the Beach
Monday night we went to the tents at Bard on the Beach to see Shakespeare’s Opera presented by students from the University of British Columbia. First a tail-gate meal in amongst the trees of chicken,...
View ArticleVancouver Mining Jobs for Engineers: CareerMine and RGC
Got a long lesson in using the new format CareerMine today. This is what I found about mining jobs for engineers in Vancouver. First up is a job with Robertson GeoConsultants (RGC). Probably no...
View ArticleGoldcorp Opera: Die Fledermaus & Freedom
Thursday to see Die Fledermaus at the Vancouver Opera House. This is Johann Strauss’s classic waltz opera of marital infidelity and mistaken identity. And the prime sponsor is Goldcorp, a...
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