{"id":678,"date":"2008-05-08T18:19:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-08T18:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/wordpress\/?p=678"},"modified":"2010-01-02T19:56:37","modified_gmt":"2010-01-02T19:56:37","slug":"otherwise-you-can-go-read-opera-chic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/2008\/05\/otherwise-you-can-go-read-opera-chic.html","title":{"rendered":"Otherwise, you can go read Opera Chic"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">I was going to finish my rave about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paristransatlantic.com\/magazine\/interviews\/birtwistle.html\">Harrison Birtwistle<\/a>&#8216;s new opera <a href=\"http:\/\/music.guardian.co.uk\/classical\/operalivereviews\/story\/0,,2273880,00.html\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">The Minotaur<\/span><\/a>, which I took my girlfriend to see at the Royal Opera House last weekend.  (Warning: we&#8217;ve been together for a few years &#8211; this is not a good date opera!)  However, I got distracted by <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">finally <\/span>working out how to make the header on <a href=\"http:\/\/cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/archive\/2005_04_01_boringlikeadrill_archive.html\">the archive pages<\/a> clickable to get you back to the front page of the blog.  It&#8217;s a good day.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The last opera I saw was <a style=\"font-style: italic;\" href=\"http:\/\/cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/2007\/04\/satyagraha-and-living-with.html\">Satyagraha<\/a>, over a year ago; and this weekend I&#8217;ll be at Southbank for Luigi Nono&#8217;s <a style=\"font-style: italic;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.southbankcentre.co.uk\/calendar\/productions\/nono-prometeo-17249\">Prometeo<\/a>.  For all the musical and dramatic power of Birtwistle&#8217;s opera, thinking of it in retrospect makes it seem almost quaintly conventional compared to these two other works; but that&#8217;s hardly a fair assessment.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">I&#8217;m still trying to figure out what to play for my gig at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.horsebazaar.com.au\/index.html\">Horse Bazaar<\/a> (Wednesday 11 June!), so <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">The Minotaur<\/span> review may come out before or after I&#8217;ve seen <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Prometeo<\/span>.  If the latter, I&#8217;ll try to resist making comparisons.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was going to finish my rave about Harrison Birtwistle&#8216;s new opera The Minotaur, which I took my girlfriend to see at the Royal Opera House last weekend. (Warning: we&#8217;ve been together for a few years &#8211; this is not a good date opera!) However, I got distracted by finally working out how to make [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=678"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2828,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678\/revisions\/2828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}