Rossini's Il Viaggio a Reims is not your usual opera with a plot (however absurd) and beginning, middle and end. Instead it is a spoof on opera, a very long (3 hour) sing with a great deal of repitition. To the credit of Opera Australia and their collaborators (Dutch National Opera, Amsterdam Opera, Royal Danish Opera) the audience was entranced from beginning to end. Phenomenal singing and an ingenious staging. Bravo!
Thursday, October 31, 2019
Thursday, October 03, 2019
Teapot, little jug and Clivia flowers
Teapot, little jug and Clivia flowers |
Addendum: I added a dropped flower for balance.
Wednesday, October 02, 2019
Painting domestic scenes
I have hardly posted here over the last two months because my energies have been directed toward finding somewhere permanent to live. More on that later.
I am really missing a decent painting space, but while I wait for better I am alleviating my property blues by painting little domestic scenes.
The teapot seems to be painting itself. It is very different from the last canvas of a vase with onions which sat on the easel and complained for such a long time. Each time I passed it I changed it, but in the end I took it off the easel and put it away, perhaps to just paint over it. It is so dark, perhaps reflecting the winter days that are now slowly receding.
I am really missing a decent painting space, but while I wait for better I am alleviating my property blues by painting little domestic scenes.
Chalk drawing: teapot and milk jug |
Teapot, milk jug and Clivia flowers on the easel |
Vase and onions |
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