Today I saw another Met opera at the Yonge & Eglinton: Borodin's Prince Igor, based on a mediaeval Russian poem. I'd never seen it before, though I've certainly heard the famous Polovtsian Dances. It's the one where Prince Igor goes out to battle the Polovtsians from the steppes despite an inauspicious solar eclipse and gets routed and ends up a guest-prisoner of the khan and back home his brother-in-law Galitsky tries to usurp his throne but another khan invades and devastates the place and the Prince escapes and returns home and everyone celebrates.
The second act, set in a poppy field, was pretty confusing. (It's taking place in his head, see?) But the next act had a great Galitsky: in the scene where he threatened his sister (Igor's wife), they clearly had a history. There was a superb party scene too.
They mentioned the operas the Met will be transmitting, and they sound promising. They're doing quite a few that I've worked on at the Toronto City Opera or at the choir: Carmen, Macbeth, Merry Widow, Marriage of Figaro, Tales of Hoffmann.
Margaret and her oldest daughter Sarah are visiting from Kingston. They came to shop for a prom dress for Sarah and she found one in sapphire blue.
I haven't run short like this for a while. Anything for variety!
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