Seven veils, one severed head and a healthy dose of culture...

[mrph]

Well, I've been meaning to watch more opera for a while...

The WNO's production of Richard Strauss's Salome visits Birmingham in March. I now have tickets.

I like Strauss, but I've never heard the full version of this (although I have heard excerpts). Alex Ross spent quite a bit of time praising in it The Rest is Noise, mind you, which has definitely caught my interest.

And so far, my trips to actually attend opera have been limited to a couple of Philip Glass pieces, so this should be an interesting change...

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[mrph.livejournal.com]

The two I've seen were Satyagraha and Waiting for the Barbarians.

Satyagraha, his piece about Gandhi, is a little less explicable than most operas, from what I've seen. It has a certain dream logic to it.

Waiting For the Barbarians is a very different creature, much closer to 'standard' opera. Sung in english, based on the J. M. Coetzee book and just a little bit disturbing, in many different ways...

[inulro.livejournal.com]

When are you going? I could be interested.

[mrph.livejournal.com]

Weds March 25th. Tickets seem to be almost sold out, though - I couldn't find more than two in a block, so I grabbed two on the spur of the moment (mister_jack's got the second one) instead of trying to organise Stuff.

The info page is here:
http://www.birminghamhippodrome.com/index.php?page=89&show=286

[inulro.livejournal.com]

Oh well - between the fact that I'll have no leave left by then and definitely have no money till the end of the month, looks like I'll have to give it a miss.