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04 October 2003

 
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Was thinking about the time I took my niece Anji to the opera in Melbourne, the State Theatre at the Victoria Arts Centre. We saw Don Giovanni, and it was set in the Twenties or Thirties in, I think it was, North Africa. The Don was a tall Italian in a cream-colored surcoat, as I recall. I guess that was about 1998... Anji claims she did NOT fall asleep, although I distinctly remember tiny snores. The theatre is lovely and big. We saw a man with his hair dyed like a leopard. The carpet was red. On that same trip I went to the Sydney Operahouse by myself, and saw Der Fliegende Hollander. It was opening night, I remember that. The actual opera theatre is one of many (7?) theatres in that interesting building, and is quite small. It's on the side that's away from the bridge. During the intermish I was curious about some strange things -- white cloth? what were they? -- zooming in and out around the top of a tall building. Some of the other operagoers told me the zooming white flashes were sulpher-crested cockatoos that were attracted to the light on the top of the building. The Hollander set was engineered to break apart, and it was groovy, although I don't remember who was singing. Oh yeah --at the intermish everyone went outside -- that's why I saw the flashing birds.

I arrived on a Sunday and went to the big flea market, which was fun. I regret (from that very next moment on) not buying a very chock-full old charm bracelet that was some amount of money that I remember as $90A (but 'delusional' is my middle name). At the moment I just wasn't sure I could spend it, and of course, afterwards was too late. I was only in town about three days, I think. Anyway, I probably wouldn't have done much with it (not the point!) and I have a charm bracelet languishing away on top of a bookcase even as I write.

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