Saturday

A NIGHT AT THE OPERA

Yesterday evening to the Bloomsbury Theatre: excellent production of Mendelsohn's opera Camacho's Wedding in which nephew G. was singing. It was a delight: we arrived tired at the end of an unusually hectic and demanding week, but the music and the energy of this spirited production energised us, and we hugely enjoyed ourselves. It's good to be part of a city where a University theatre can put on a production of this quality and style. The chorus was strong and effective, the plot suitably convoluted (young lovers must separate as bride's father has decided she must murry a rich man instead, friends help to try to ensure all ends well, after innumerable muddles they finally do....)and the music glorious. Mendelsohn wrote it when only 14!!