tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-416983732847060845.post2322150922453157547..comments2024-03-05T10:14:38.181+00:00Comments on CLASSICAL ICONOCLAST: Radical Rethink? ENO heritageDoundou Tchilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07469682216179706743noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-416983732847060845.post-5759168099531823852015-02-03T20:30:14.091+00:002015-02-03T20:30:14.091+00:00I saw my first "proper" opera production...I saw my first "proper" opera productions at ENO. It was cheaper and less intimidating than the ROH.NPW-Parishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06314486898336205068noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-416983732847060845.post-70622729809493207492015-02-03T20:29:25.947+00:002015-02-03T20:29:25.947+00:00"Not all that long ago, English people didn&#..."Not all that long ago, English people didn't eat garlic and thought olive il was for cleaning the ears." Many people wouldn't believe how recently. My family didn't drink coffee until Nescafé got going, my mother never cooked pasta of any kind (though we did have tinned spaghetti), the first avocados she ever bought were thrown away, as hard as potatoes, you bought olive oil in tiny bottles at the chemists's, etc...NPW-Parishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06314486898336205068noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-416983732847060845.post-74154136481139850302015-02-03T20:24:51.555+00:002015-02-03T20:24:51.555+00:00"Paris supports more than one opera house, so..."Paris supports more than one opera house, so does Berlin, why not London?" In Paris, as you know, the Opéra National runs two houses, plus there is the Opéra Comique and a fullish season at the Théâtre des Champs Elysées and some opera at the Châtelet. Budapest's State Opera also runs two, Prague has at least three, USW...<br /><br />I see that coincidentally the same discussion is under way in NYC as regards the City Opera.NPW-Parishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06314486898336205068noreply@blogger.com