(Opera) Bucket List

Just a short(?) list of operas I want to see . . . eventually:

Tosca

Werther

Eugene Onegin

Marriage of Figaro

Lucrezia Borgia 

Rigoletto

Elektra

Pelleas and Melisande

Rusalka

Die Fledermaus

Der Fliegende Hollaender

Tamerlano

Aida

Lucia di Lammermoor

La Clemenza di Tito

The Capulents and the Montagues 

Orlando Furioso

Ernani

Semele

(Update! 11/15/12 - I knew I had more of these floating around in my head!)

Katya Kabanova
The Capulets and the Montagues
Semele
La Finta Giardiniera
The Tsar's Bride
Virginia
Flora
Nabucco
Anna Bolena
Roberto Devereux
Francesca da Rimini
The Elixir of Love
La Sonnambula
Marie Victoire
Manon
La Traviata
Macbeth
Daughter of the Regiment
Il Travatore
Hippolyte et Aricie
La Cenerentola

(Soon to come: my favorite operas!)

Got any favorites of your own?

Fish'N'Chips and Shakespeare

I had a rather interesting day today.
This morning, we talked about Shakespeare.
More specifically, we discussed Shakespeare's use of fish and sheep.
Mostly fish.
Mainly about how Caliban in The Tempest was called a fish and the significance of that.
Um, pardon me, but I think the significance was this: 1 - Caliban was deformed. 2 - He lived on an island, so he probably smelled like . . . fish.
End of story.
Well, it must have stuck in my brain, because I had fish and chips for lunch.

It was actually quite good for cafeteria fish.
In another class, we took a quiz.
15 questions.
After that, she let us leave.
Can you say "win"?
After that - in another class, naturally - we discussed the Pamplona Run of the Bulls.
. . .
I think I'm scratching that off my 'bucket list' . . .
. . . Or at least move it to the end . . .

HMESHB - Part I

How My Essay Should Have Been
Part I
Response to "Common Sense"

I'll spare you the somewhat boring details of what I really wrote, but here's what it almost said:

"Thomas Paine's Common Sense inspired Thomas Jefferson to pen the Declaration of Independence, which would later be stolen by Ben F. Gates with the assistance of Riley Poole and Dr. Abigail Chase, to thwart the efforts of Ian Howe."

Dear me . . .
But part of me wonders what would have happened had I actually turned it in like that . . . My professor has a wicked sense of humor; she probably would have loved it!
. . . Or failed me on it.
But still . . .

Gladiators!

Main topic in history class today: gladiators. Chosen by popular vote . . . Enjoyed a bit too much by some, perhaps . . . >.0

Although, today marks the second time the professor had to call the IT center. It's always interesting, because he's got the phone to his ear and he's still going on about history, for example: "So, Caesar Augustus never acknowledged that he was emperor - yes, hello; I can't get the PC image on the projector? - instead, he would get very angry if anyone called him 'emperor' - yes, the screen is down and the projector is on - and he would, ah, send them to the woodshed - yes, thank you. [To us:] They're sending a guy down. Anyways . . ."

We just sat there and laughed the whole time! (Can you really blame us?)