Wednesday 3 April 2013
Hobart Baroque: Haydn Opera and Early Music Festival in Tasmania
Leo Schofield has done it again!
Hobart Baroque Festival from 12-20 April.
A flavour of the opera L'isola disabitata (not from the Royal Opera House Covent Garden cast):
Come il vapor s'ascende; Haydn (L'isola disabitata), Christiane Karg YouTube
Another (Patricia Petibon - Fra un dolce delirio - L'isola Disabitata)
Tasmania is the place to be this month.
John Glover's Tasmania
At Salamanca Market, Hobart
A nineties hippy selling badges
"Independence for Australia" -
A yellow cross adorned with stars.
No trace of red or blue.
"And haven't you been independent,
All these many years and more ?"
Asked a puzzled Pommy tourist.
"We're still part of the British Empire, mate,
The Queen of England's still Head of State! "
"I'm sorry you feel you're still enslaved.".
We turned our back on Chip-On-The-Shoulder,
With his Southern Cross T-Shirt, his Eureka Flag badge.
We looked at all the antique stalls,
Loaded with British bric-a-brac
Wondering what should be junked
And what should be saved.....
Cracked Coronation Mug ? Cracked cricket bat ?
Some souvenirs of Royal Tours,
A Georgian commode, a Pre-Raphaelite print ?
We bought some really useless stuff:
Three Edison cylinders, a pianola roll.
"Oh Sydney I love you",
"Australia will be there",
"For Auld Lang Syne",
Some patriotic Great War tunes.
It's the sentiment that counts.
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