August 2011
16 posts
ajohnny asked: I'm a bit late, but thanks for sharing the link to Glyndebourne's simulcast of Turn of the Screw! I'd never seen the opera before, and I was glad I got to catch a good production of it.
How to get $12 billion of gold to Venezuela →
Reuters’ Felix Salmon ponders how to repatriate 211 tons of Venezuelan gold from central banks across Europe to Caracas, as Hugo Chávez has declared his intention to do. He has a number of cunning ideas, but I personally like one commenter’s notion that could well be the plot of a Steven Segal movie:
A Venezuelan warship carrying the gold is torpedoed and sunk in the Caribbean....
Turn of the Screw live from Glyndebourne, NOW! →
Do you know what hurts the most? The realisation that I didn’t want you, but merely someone.
“It is not for nothing that opera is thriving. Just look around you: in 2011 you...”
– ‘Opera has never been more alive’ — Simon Callow for The Guardian.
On a Dream
As Hermes once took to his feathers light
When lulled Argus, baffled, swoon’d and slept,
So on a Delphic reed my idle spright
So play’d, so charm’d, so conquer’d, so bereft
The dragon-world of all its hundred eyes,
And, seeing it asleep, so fled away:
Not to pure Ida with its snow-cold skies,
Nor unto Tempe where Jove griev’d a day;
But to that second circle of sad hell,...
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One Week in Salzburg →
Tim does a magnificent job attempting to describe the indescribable experience of Roche Continents. A task I failed at on my return twelve months ago. My own week in Salzburg broke me; melted me; cast me in a new mould, and sent me out afresh. It changed me more anything ever before. Such passion, energy and intensity! These are days we will long to experience again and again, and stories we will...
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“Well over three and half centuries ago, strengthened by faith and bound by a...”
– Sam Seaborn. The West Wing 2x08, Shibboleth.
“I need a savage, unforgiving, brutal God. I don’t want some bourgeois...”
– Peter Scabius. Any Human Heart, by William Boyd
