(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 . . .