Back in 2008 or 2009 or so, the Canadian Opera Company put on a radically different performance of Igor Stravinsky’s “3 act” opera The Nightingale, buttressed by additional pieces in order to actually make the runtime somewhat comparable to a normal opera. (The Nightingale runs less than an hour.) I don’t know who initially curated the selections …
Tag: Sunday
Riley Goes to Belgrade Sunday October 8, 2017
We got up early in order to make our 8:10 train. We had breakfast at the hotel and then walked over to the train station.
Riley Goes to Kotor, Montenegro Sunday October 1, 2017
We woke up early because we had not purchased a bus ticket to take us to Kotor, Montenegro and we were a little confused as to how often it ran. We figured the best thing to do would be to get over there as early as reasonable and buy the ticket for the next bus. …
Riley Goes to Saskatchewan Day 3 – Sunday June 4, 2017 Saskatoon to Yorkton
This morning we woke up early again and went to the Park Cafe Diner in the formerly bad part of downtown. It was a solid diner breakfast and I got to try a kind of bacon I’ve never had before: schinkenspeck.