Hello from Glyndebourne 2017!
There is WiFi! So as a first from yours truly, I’m waving at you from the Glyndebourne main lawn 🙂 it’s a gorgeous sunny day out here – very windy! My hair is messier than usual (a fright, as one says here), which is a good thing, as it would be too hot otherwise and I’m not wearing shorts today 😉
Tonight’s entertainment is Cavalli’s Hipermestra, or fifty brides for 49 soon to be dead dead husbands. There is a Saudi Prince waving in and out with his bride, so I’m guessing he’s the lucky one 😉
There will be pics!
Interval edit: ah, good acoustics, how I missed you! I think Glyndebourne hall is also on the dry side but, damn, that crispness is nice on these ears. The two theorbists really worked for their money! So do the rams in the distance, they’re making a racket 😀
Damsel in distress the woods (ok, the desert), petrol pumps – deja vu?
Just after the show edit: gotta give it to Vick, that was some effective inserting of the band!
ps: Emoke Barath is sitting one seat up from me on the bus back to Lewes. Yes, I know, it’s that kind of summer.
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Posted on June 15, 2017, in baroque, glyndebourne, italian opera, live performances, operatic damsels in distress and tagged francesco cavalli, glyndebourne, hipermestra. Bookmark the permalink. 19 Comments.
opera, innit? 
Enjoy the acoustics, it must be awesome from what I can say from my innumerable Rinaldo re-watches 🙂
It is! Which is why I’m trying to lure all of you here next year 😉
I am super-jealous about this. I tried in every which way to get to Glyndebourne for Hypermestra this year and I failed. You MUST tell me about the performance!! I demand it! (STOMP!)
OK, I’m just asking nicely 🙂
I am working on the post 😉 hope to get it out tomorrow or the day after.
ps: Emoke Barath is sitting one seat up from me on the bus back to Lewes. Yes, I know, it’s that kind of summer.
🙂 . i talked to her back stage in Detroit (that Händel Messiah tour with N.Stutzmann), she was really lovely, and had spent a summer in Boston. I like her voice a lot, and it seems to have grown larger now (her voice).
yes, the voice is pretty sizable. She talked to some people who started chatting but she seemed rather tired and in fact got off before we got to the station so she could pick up something (to eat I assume). Very much a regular person, whilst I was thinking “but you were holding that stage for three hours!”
She’s here doing Steffani duets with Amanda Forsythe in October, just sayin’
Here where? 😉
yeah, that’s stray incognito covering on the ground at bemf , hence the “here” 😉
😀 good one!
Dr T is wicked smaaaht, as they say in Boston.
you weren’t pouring any ash, were you? 😉
is that you, stray? sounds like you 🙂
It is I!…using somebody else’s computer. Sorry, I thought my comment had fallen into the wordpress croc pit.
it did, but mine isn’t very deep 😉 I also enjoy digging.
(stray texted me by accident revealing her hideout, that’s how i knew 😉 )
Curses! I’d have succeeded in my nefarious plan if it weren’t for Madame Gauvin and the Cornetto Tester!
“Madame Gauvin and the Cornetto Tester” sounds like a saucy read from the 18th century 😀
did that happen when she was crouching behind the double bass and dropped her phone? 😉