Category Archives: going to operas

encountering the ringtone

Posted on May 16, 2005 by vhk10

A couple of years ago I finally got a mobile phone, which allowed programmable ringtones of a rather limited kind (monophonic, and with equal note values). I set it up to play the principal tone-row from Lulu, and have used … Continue reading →

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Ni’r tlodion

Posted on February 27, 2005 by vhk10

On Friday we went to the Wales Millennium Centre in Cardiff to see Welsh National Opera’s new production of Wozzeck. As something of a veteran of productions of this opera, I shan’t comment further on either its degree of musical … Continue reading →

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Ariadne in Advent

Posted on December 10, 2004 by vhk10

I felt it was about time to go to the opera again, and although the piece isn’t a favourite of mine I went to WNO’s Ariadne auf Naxos at the Bristol Hippodrome, that being what I could get to easily. … Continue reading →

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Britten at the Theatre Royal

Posted on June 11, 2004 by vhk10

I went to one other performance at the Bath Festival: Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream put on by English Touring Opera at the Theatre Royal. This production was well reviewed and I generally enjoyed it, although the Oberon and some … Continue reading →

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Il Trovatore at the Hippodrome

Posted on December 19, 2003 by vhk10

I went to hear ‘Il Trovatore’ at the Bristol Hippodrome last week, done by the Welsh National Opera. WNO doesn’t have the 4 best singers in the world that this opera is said to require, but the principals were all … Continue reading →

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