“Agrippina”: an aside
[Vesselina Kasarova as "Agrippina", Zurich 2009. - Photo Credit: Susanne Schwiertz, Zurich Opera]
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Updates will be slow for a few days as I am out of the country and possibly out of an affordable internet connection (Zurich!) until the weekend.
Tomorrow night, I’ll catch the last “Agrippina” at Zurich Opera (if anyone else from the Kasarovian Army is visiting, I’ll be wearing the white shirt and a stately male colleague on my arm) – impressions forthcoming afterwards, but if you want to feel as if you’ve been there, check out Purity’s reviews in the comments here.
For the rest of the week, I’ll be attending that conference (yes, the Assyrian Pottery is calling again) that allows me to travel to Zurich in the first place.
Actually, the whole master plan behind the conference (organized by the same colleague who will accompany me to the opera) was to organize it for a date that would allow us to see the “Agrippina”.
Evil academic scheming at its best. And working out, too.
More on Mijanovic’s masculinity skills and Bonitatibus’ boots once I get a minute in between the clay and the terracotta.
A good week to you all!
Oh god yeah, for the land of the incredibly wealthy their net access is crap… though you can get ‘free’ in Starbucks when you buy a coffee (but of course that does mean going in to Starbucks *shudder*). I trawled all over town with my ipod touch looking for free wifi and couldn’t find any. Maybe the Opernhaus could follow in the footsteps of the Lincoln Centre and wifi up their area?
Have a great time, now it’s my turn to be jealous
Ah evil academic scheming… something of an Eye Bags speciality. Agrippina would be proud 
Enjoy your pots! Just remember…
yay for evil academic scheming! see you soon in Z. … at the hotel bar I hope…
How did the evil academic scheming turn out? Hope you spent a great time over there.
welcome home anik, looking forward to hearing your impressions (if a little anxious, did the teacher enjoy it as much as the pupil…
hope the train journey went ok and the post-conference ‘exhaustion’ 
wasn’t too bad
…the evil scheming worked out, despite the first train already being half an hour late and Zurich being caught in “storm, 35°C, thunderstorm approaching” as we touched down and then had to wait an hour for our luggage since it couldn’t be unloaded due to the extreme weather conditions.
Zurich with Agrippina, definitely my favorite place to catch a cold! (and the hotel bar lounge by the river wasn’t too bad, either… right, Rykoe?)
Ack! Hope you’ll feel better soon, Anik. I got visited by a rather rude strain of flu last week, too. Dunno why these winter bugs are out and about this time of year, ay? Drink lots of water and get well soon!
thanks, Smorg! It was just a small cold, though, and already fades into the distance next to the fantastic conditions of how I caught it
I hope you’re back up and running (and less green), as well!
Sorry, Ladies, I don’t know where else to post this, but i have the US radio schedule of San Francisco Opera’s just-ended season – many stations will carry it on line, of course, e.g. the distributor, WFMT Chicago). It begins 15 Aug with Boccanegra – no hot mezzos in pants or crisp white shirts, but a hot baritone instead: Hvorostovsky. Please let me know how i can post the rest without clogging up the site. Ta v much. JG
Simon Boccanegra Dmitri Hvorostovsky
Amelia Grimaldi /
Maria Boccanegra Barbara Frittoli
Gabriele Adorno Marcus Haddock
Jacopo Fiesco Vitalij Kowaljow
Paolo Albiani Patrick Carfizzi
Pietro Kenneth Kellogg
Amelia’s Servant Erin Neff
A Captain Dale Tracy
CONDUCTOR: Donald Runnicles
@Jeep Gerhard: this information couldn’t possibly be considered clogging anywhere! Feel free to post here within the comments. If you’d like to, you could also send me a list via email (aniklachev [at] web [dot] de) and I will write a post around it. Either way, thanks a lot for taking the time to post this!
Well no hot mezzos in pants, but a hot soprano who has had (in a performative sense only of course) a hot mezzo in pants is the next best thing Jeep