donutsweeper

I believe I used to call him Dr Sarcoma, because that type of cancer is his specialty, but I think from now on I shall call him Dr Opera, because, well, it's obvious, isn't it? He's got a huge collection of opera on blu-ray and dvd and I have obtained permission to borrow some. I like to say I've got a library card. :p I just gave him a little wish list of four titles that we would like to borrow yesterday, and he had all of those. If it's anything like when I borrowed a handful around new year's eve, he'll come with a couple of them in two different versions because he couldn't decide as well as a couple of others he thinks I should see. It's like I've got a mentor! Yesterday when we were chatting about it, I referred to it as 'seeing to my education'. (Perhaps I should attempt to learn a little Italian...)

On Sunday it's opera at the cinema again, and this time it's Eugine Onegin by Tchaikovsky, which I hadn't heard about before. Apparently it's based on a novel by Pushkin (I think it was). I've listened to it, but I haven't read the homework in the opera book yet, so I don't know what the story is.

We have also become aware of an outdoor opera concert event in a large park near where my parents live, so we're quite interested in going to that. I have texted my mother to see if she wants to come. Dad can come as well, obviously, if he wants to. I'm just not sure he'll want to.

On Saturday we were up at my parents' and went to see a play at their local theatre. This one was rather larger than what we normally see there and was performed in the next door old warehouse. It was a semi-professionel sort of deal, where the actors from the theatre (which is 100% professional theatre, even though it's tiny) were joined by a lot of amateurs from different theatre groups. We've seen this sort of show before, and as I understand it part of the concept is that the plays are based in local history. Last time we went it was set during the German occupation during WW2, and this time it was around 1658 during one of the Swedish wars. (We had 12 of those over a period of about 250 years. This is why Sweden is usually referred to as our brother people, EXCEPT if it's sports, then they're the hereditary enemy.)