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Jan. 5th, 2004 03:40 pmToday is Setting Orange, day 5 in the season of Chaos, 3270.
It is the sacred Apostle Holyday of Mungday.
For some reason, the fact that I'm listening to Pavarotti singing "Nessun dorma" at high volume reminds me of Nicola. Probably it's because for some reason I have no problem envisioning him and the owner at Da Domenico belting it out in the main dining room. =) (For those unfamiliar with the place, it's a local restaurant whose owner tends to wander the dining rooms singing to the guests, and who sounds not completely unlike Pavarotti in fact. It's fabulous.) Also possibly because he was the first, and for a while the only one, of my friends to seriously appreciate opera.
Hm. Manon Lescaut is on the Washington Opera schedule for April, and they're finally back in the Kennedy Center Opera House and out of the horrid Constitution Hall. I think perhaps I'll treat myself for my birthday.
[Edit: And if I was really ambitious and perhaps made of money, I could go to New York the weekend after my birthday and see the fabulous Alan Held (who sang Wotan in the Washington Opera's Die Walküre) sing Gunther in Götterdämmerung. This is unlikely to happen thanks to needing to save money to rent a moving van and to come up with $900 or so for my half of deposits. Dear lord, there's something funny about plotting a road trip to follow a baritone around. Opera groupie!]
It is the sacred Apostle Holyday of Mungday.
For some reason, the fact that I'm listening to Pavarotti singing "Nessun dorma" at high volume reminds me of Nicola. Probably it's because for some reason I have no problem envisioning him and the owner at Da Domenico belting it out in the main dining room. =) (For those unfamiliar with the place, it's a local restaurant whose owner tends to wander the dining rooms singing to the guests, and who sounds not completely unlike Pavarotti in fact. It's fabulous.) Also possibly because he was the first, and for a while the only one, of my friends to seriously appreciate opera.
Hm. Manon Lescaut is on the Washington Opera schedule for April, and they're finally back in the Kennedy Center Opera House and out of the horrid Constitution Hall. I think perhaps I'll treat myself for my birthday.
[Edit: And if I was really ambitious and perhaps made of money, I could go to New York the weekend after my birthday and see the fabulous Alan Held (who sang Wotan in the Washington Opera's Die Walküre) sing Gunther in Götterdämmerung. This is unlikely to happen thanks to needing to save money to rent a moving van and to come up with $900 or so for my half of deposits. Dear lord, there's something funny about plotting a road trip to follow a baritone around. Opera groupie!]