VC is back home after a long weekend in Toronto, having digested 2 Baroque opera performances, not to mention visiting Canada’s largest museum. This post is just a quick update about what’s coming up on the blog later this week.
Here are the receipts for the 2 operas:
As promised in the previous post, I will review both performances on the blog.
I also managed a flying visit to the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM), of which I’m now an out-of-town member.
The ROM has a significant collection of furniture and other objects from New France, which fits nicely into VC’s period frame. I will dedicate the last post of the week to the museum’s collection of rustic Rococo furniture from old Québec.
Please check back in a day or two for the review of Dido & Aeneas. I loved it, but I do have one quibble. Stay tuned for details!
It’s true, dear friends. Versailles Century, which is to say, I, David, am going to the opera. And not just one opera, but two.
I should point out that this is a major outing for me. It’s a 3-hour drive from my little town on the shore of Lake Huron, where I’ve been settled for the last 6 months since my return to Ontario after nearly 20 years’ residence in East and Southeast Asia, across the southern Ontario peninsula to Toronto. To add to the fun, there will be probably be snow flurries during the drive. No matter, though, because a full-scale blizzard wouldn’t stop me from getting to Toronto.
This weekend, you see, TWO baroque operas will be staged in Canada’s largest city. The Canadian Opera Company is presenting Handel’s Ariodante, and Opera Atelier is mounting a new production of Purcell’s Dido & Aeneas. We at Versailles Century are very excited about both because of course we prize the baroque opera above all others.
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