Pirates of Penzance

Atlanta Opera positively knocking it out of the park with this production. Humorous, clever, a good complement to the music. It is clear they had fun with this one.

Kevin Burette - splendid as the Pirate King
Maureen McKay - equally splendid as Mabel
Matthew Newline - Frederic
Curt Olds - Major-General Stanley

More from the High - Basquiat and Muniz

The Unknown Notebooks by Basquiat. Complete with a scribbled Italian phone number for which G and I found the address.

And a Vik Muniz collection which was full of fun and fantasy. He mixes the skills of draftsmanship, creativity and photography. Good stuff.
(both images below, Vik Muniz pieces)

Cultural weekend, family legacies

Inherited talent, father & son, senior and junior, Strauss' and Creeds.

As in Johann and Apollo/Adonis.

Saturday, via the High Museum, an organ concert at the First Presbyterian Church of Atlanta with organ master Jens Korndoerfer. I had never been to an organ concert, to the best of my memory.

Giuseppe now has a great desire to be an organ master's assistants to get to pull buttons all day.

The concert was rather wonderful and ended with well-received crowd pleasers by the Strauss father and son team. In any case note: the Radetzky March is constant joy.

And Sunday we got to celebrate another famed and loved father-son duo: the Creeds. Thank you Ryan Coogler for continuing a legacy that will never get old and will entertain me forever. Brilliant work of course Sly and Michael B. Jordan.

Anniversary & Opera

This year our wedding anniversary coincided with the opening of the Atlanta Opera Season, so we got to celebrate 6 years with La Bohème.

Because when I walk down the street all alone, people stop and stare at my beauty.

I love that waltz.

Another fabulous night - it always is - at the Atlanta Opera. I apologise to the organisers for being less than enthusiastic about the videos and photographs. Oddly enough I don't enjoy cameras, however I have a soft spot in my heart for your organisation and I will do what I can to help promote you to the city.

Rodolfo - Gianluca Terranova
Mimi - Maria Luigia Borsi
Marcello - Trevor Scheunemann
Musetta - Leah Partridge (always a pleaure)
Schaunard - Theo Hoffman
Colline - Nicholas Brownlee