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It’s been fun but fun can’t last. Here’s the last of the opera review series I’ve been doing for the past two years for The Tyee. My original goal was to help wrestle opera out of the hands of the haughty and put it back among the regular folks where it belongs. So I brought a [...] 
My son would rather zap video game aliens than sit through an evening of live opera. But that was before I changed his mind, with parental discretion and ice cream. We went to see Mozart’s La Clemenza di Tito. Here’s what we thought: The Tyee – ‘La Clemenza di Tito’ and the 12-Year-Old Canadian Male. For the latest installment of the opera series I’m doing for thetyee.ca I took a punk/hipster to see “Nixon in China”…and he liked it!
The Tyee — Operatic Thugs: ‘Nixon in China’. I thought it might be cool to be able to drop into conversations at cocktail parties that I was the new opera critic for The Tyee. Then I remembered that I don’t go to parties. Too late, though, I’d already landed this gig. It starts with this: 10 (Bad) Reasons to Hate Opera. |
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