Lillian’s Journey is Over for Tonight

Wow! That was so stirring, not only the opera with its powerful music or the encompassing scenery, the huge visuals, the love stories and the mysteries revealed, but simply the notion that an opera can…

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Intermission time, and there’s a real buzz in the lobby now as people compare impressions. But my first task is to admit an embarrassing mistake I made in my earlier posts: it’s Lillian (double “l”)…

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Opera Time — Don’t Break a Leg, Lilian

VOA-provided photographs of the stunning stage set. Such drama! Entering our fourth VOA season as subscribers, my husband Paul and I have been fortunate enough to have seen Frédérique Vézina and Roger Honeywell in La…

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What I Wore — Before the Opera

I see that the Vancouver Opera Blog hasposted about Blogging Night at the Operaand has linked to me and to mythree fellow Bloggers at the Opera. I wish I didn’t have to head to campus…

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News and Views, From Opera Premieres to Big and Little Boats!

Some recent traffic in front of our place: a fishing lodge being transported, three small-smaller-smallest tugboats in a parade, and a couple of freighters far from home, waiting to be guided into port and unloaded.…

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