Tristan und Isolde

Last nights performance of Wagner's Tristan und Isolde at Venue Cymru was mixed. I felt that the performance suffered due to the set, which was too big for the stage. Some of the singers had trouble maneuvering around it. Also the set didn't manage to correspond well to where the setting were - for instance in the second act the scene was set in Isolde's chamber, but the set showed it to be in the middle of a road.

The singing was the most mixed aspect. Some of the singers were excellent - Annalena Persson as Isolde gave a truly Wagerian sound, with her powerful voice, Robert Hayward was also an excellent singer in the role of Kurwenal - but other singers I felt lacked the power needed for the music. At times one couldn't hear voices above the music - which is renowned to be very loud.

The highlight of the performance must have been the music. Wagner's score transported you to another place with its sheer power - and I think it is the best aspect of his work, because I find the scenes terribly long at times. Occasionally my mind wandered off for a few minutes and when it returned the characters where still singing about the same thing. Thus I felt that being at the opera from 17:00 'till 22:30 could have been shortened by about an hour if one had taken a machete to the lyrics.

Tor

I was up late last night watching The Big Lebowski on Film4. It was entertaining, and well worth the fewer hours of sleep I had as a result.

This morning I've read more of 'Database Nation' and as a result have been reading up on tor. I've tried to get it working for web browsing, but so far my efforts have been futile as FireFox doesn't seem to like using Privoxy to connect to an anonomising port. I'll have a further look into this during the week hopefully.

Tonight I'm going to see a performance of Wagner's Tristan and Isolde. Including two breaks and a supper-hour it'll last five hours and forty-five minutes; which is very long. Thus we've already had our main meal of the day at lunchtime (lamb chops, mint, cous-cous), and will have sandwiches during one of the breaks given to us. It'll indeed be a marathon. I hope to enjoy the evening.

LUGRadio Live!

Yup I'm going 8)

Revision

If online people who want to contact me in the next few weeks - I don't see my answering since I am now revising like hell. See you all in a couple of months

Not been here for a while

I've not been active here for a while - seem to be blogging more on my other two blogs (blogs.libervis.com and dylunio.homelinux.com).

If any one is interested I'm doing okay, and have about 3 weeks until my exams start - [sarcasm]YAY![/sacrasm]

Have fun ye'all!

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Lament of the Lamb

I went to Costa Geriatrica today, and as well as getting now shoes, I went to Ottikars - they seem to have setup a 'Manga Collectors Club' where one gets a free volume for every three volumes you buy, so today I got Lament of the Lamb v.2 and v.3, so now next time I go there I'll get another two volumes and only have to pay for one.
Anyhow, I've read v.2 already and it's such a good manga, it's there with Love Hina and Chobits for me, the darkness and on the edge of your seat-ness of it makes it a grand read. I'll wait untill I get to school before reading the other, I'll try and read Furubar in the time being, which isn't quite as good.