Timothy Vernon

Conductor (Orchestra, Opera) Founding AD, Pacific Opera Victoria, more recently of Opera Lyra Ottawa; Trained in Vienna, ignored in Canada.

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Exhibiting DTs was once associated with abject addiction to alcohol; it's now a symptom of obsession with American politics, equally abject.

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Karl Kraus: Only in Vienna can a dessert be a poem (ein Gedicht). Bavette de Veau at Bistro Boulay, Rue St Jean Québec: an epic!

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Chocolatine aux Amandes, Cafe Les Cousins, Av. Cartier, Québec: Heaven will have to work hard to be as good. Almost Mozartean.

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Ken MacDonald's charming Gaudi-inspired set and Morris Panych's deft direction make of this Rossini an appealing nouveau Barber of Barcelona

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Unfair! Quebec S O playing Barbiere so beautifully I might have to start liking it again. Spectacular singing from J Bouliane, A Noguera

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POV Britten MSNDream tour to Miss and N Carolina cancelled: opera depicts marriage of fairies (Tytania/Oberon) and bestiality (Tyt/Bottom).

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Barbiere in Ottawa: another close shave for @OperaLyraOttawa (we're in a lather!). Just the tonic you need - get some Sep 26 @CanadasNAC

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@ottawanag @PacificOperaVic Thank you, Nathalie! Can't leave my baby, but very excited about OLO - hope to see you before too long - July 7?

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Saskatoon revelation: not singing the hack-work recits (all marked 'bis' after each number in Carmen) means they've bought the bis-cut.

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Traviata in Calgary: Lyne Fortin phenomenal. Pay scale ok after all - rumours untrue that one works here for a Mcfee. Viva Verdi!

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@m2anthony You are the subject of my song ('I will follow him....') - very agreeable so far as little exertion required. See you this year?

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Early Venetian Republic: A doge-eat-doge world...

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(BBC clip'1948) Argument from Contingency; Lord Russell: Sorry, I know I am incontingent. Fr Copleston: Depends, milord...

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#TellVicEverything There's this four-year-old nephew who really likes the girly mags - is he a child pornographer?

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Carmen@POV OMG! We've got it all wrong! The true Carmen: Ford, Iacocca, Daimler, Volks, T. Ota, etc. And their chassis remain classy...

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Carmen@POV Our young and sexy cast moves this production so adroitly, so swiftly - it's become a Carmen Ghia!

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@ColinAinsworth Djamileh is what my Oma Ziemann would call a dab of confiture......

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@ColinAinsworth @carnegiehall @ASOrch Wish I'd heard your Djamileh. I'm sure you were djam fine as always. You deserve the Djam d'Or!

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@PacificOperaVic Oedipe (Enescu)? La Duena (Gerhardt)? Tempest (Ades)? Powder her Face (also Ades)? Lear (Reimann)? Flight (Dove)?

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Carmen@POV: Research reveals famous critic/author has matador ancestor: Escamillo Paglia! Frasquita and Mercedes first named Mosquito, BMW