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["Houpt, Fred" <fred.houpt@rbc.com>]

Speaking about operas, ahem....a small story.  Someone here at work
surprised me by offering all of a sudden out of the blue, oh Fred would
you like to attend the opera?  I checked my pulse.  I was awake.  I
said, why that is so sweet, I've never seen one live. So, two very
expensive tickets appeared on my desk.  I nearly fainted when I saw how
expensive, but this person had them extra from some friends who could
not attend and didn't want them to be wasted.   So, I made a phone call
and a friend said that he would join me.  After supper we walked over to
the brand new Opera House here in downtown Toronto.....very lovely
place, very modern.  Anyway, suffice it to say that after the opera was
over I was in a bit of a bleary head state.  What Opera did I see?  Oh,
yes, that.....Janacek's "The house of the Dead".  90 continuous minutes
of morbid, dreary, depressing reminders about why Joe Stalin's one way
ticket's to the Gulag up in Siberia was such an underrated option....the
other being hell.  Based on Dostoevsky's book, it must rank as one of
the most sour and dour musical experiences in the literature.  Sung in
Czech, with English subtitles up on the marquee, the sets were fabulous,
huge cast, some of which were naked as the men frolicked in the steam
bath sequence...ok, this is the new age, right?

I left with my heart pining away for Mozart or Tchaikovsky...both of
which are coming to the Toronto opera later.....

What a bracing first opera experience.....goodness....

Regards,

Fred Houpt
Toronto

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