Culture; glirine tendencies

[fivemack]

This month, I have

• Fallen asleep in a production of Prokofiev'sRomeo and Juliet by the Russian State Ballet Company of Siberia.
  
• Remained awake for a CUMS concert featuring Shostakovitch's Festive Overture and the Rite of Spring performed by an orchestra with two contrabassoons.
  
• Fallen asleep in a production of Howell's insufferably tedious Requiem
  
• Remained awake for Rossini's Petite Messe Solonelle in the second half of the same concert
  
• Fallen asleep while one of my colleagues was presenting interesting research to an audience of four people including the owner of the company
  
• Remained awake and rapt for a production of Tosca this evening
  

I think I may be a dormouse; in other news, there's an awful lot of music around in Cambridge.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Tom,
if you want to get stuck to the opera why don't you go for something like La Tosca, The nutcracker or La Traviata? Sure you won't fall asleep! Otherwise, I recommend either a holiday or some active refreshing sport...lazy boy!!!

I hope you got home all right and with no delays.
Talk to you soon,
Chiara