Meanderings of an opera obsessed mind...

Gah...apologies for the lack of posting...waaaaaay too exhausted over the past two weeks while getting used to HKU, timetable, people, professors and the idea of very scary coursework deadlines which all seem to clash in October/November...O____O (and I thought A-level deadlines were bad...) Just kidding. ;-)

Ahem...anyways...first of all...two things before I go on about my rant/log about HKU...(and two things that I kinda forgot on their respective days...to my dismay)

1. Happy belated 64th birthday to Sir Thomas Allen whose birthday was on the 10th! (I had thought it was the 12th or the 14th but then realised I got it TOTALLY wrong on both counts...sorry, Sir Thomas...) And yeah, the fact that I'm posting this little tidbit shows that my addiction to his fantastic baritone voice and acting has increased rather worryingly....lol. Long may he live and sing! =)

PS...if you have no idea what on earth he looks like or sounds like...



http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=xeND9sRMr9w

...there you go...the link is to one of my favourite Sir Thomas arias (and probably more well known)...'Largo al factotum' from Rossini's The Barber of Seville (Il Barbiere di Siviglia) but his Count Danilo in Lehar's The Merry Widow with Felicity Lott, his Count in Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro) and not to mention his triumphant Don Giovanni in Mozart's opera of the same name are brilliant as well. [Parts of those performances can also be seen on Youtube] =)

2. The 13th anniversary of Jeremy Brett's passing on September 12th 1995. Yes, kind of weird I know to put two opposite events in the same post but they both happened in the near same time frame...I know this is cliche but in the apt words of Shakespeare: 'Now cracks a noble heart...good night, sweet prince...may flights of angels sing thee to thy rest."


Hmm...actually, I now think that mixing up my horrible rant with these two significant events would be callous of me. I'll reserve my rant and put it in another post...lol.