Mrs Pankhurst pwns your number

I'm supposed to be at Glimmerglass right now, but the bug that kept me out of Old Songs back in June has devolved into an annoyingly persistent cough and so, yeah, no. So yay the 'Glass for being willing to do a ticket swap. Now it's off to the Medical/Industrial Complex to see if I can ditch this thing, because




is next on the agenda. Apart from the obvious attractions of the work, I confess I'm really interested to see how Leon threads the needle on this one, because remember that panel discussion a few years back when he argued that women writers in the 19th century didn't suffer discrimination in publishing because, look, Mary Wollstonecraft! Jane Austen! George Eliot! and one was all like Um...? So either Dame Ethel has afforded him a Come to Jesus moment, so to speak, on the Woman Question (i.e. that there actually was one) or I've (more likely) missed some nuance of his argument all along. Panel discussion! Bring it on!

sundry items

Culturebox has Théâtre du Châtelet's Einstein on the Beach from last week archived here for a good long while. 

Some cool concert stuff is housed on Trinity Wall Street's website, including this hour with BEMF regulars Robert Mealy (baroque violin) and Avi Stein (harpsichord and organ). 

Bard Summerscape's 2014 opera will be Weber's Euryanthe. Details will no doubt materialize somewhere around here at some point. 

This Digital Theatre thing is pretty excellent, in a Where have you been all my life kinda way. 

In that same vein, having had a fair success with streaming opera (we imagine), the Guardian now ventures into streaming theater: Howard Brenton's Drawing the Line, about the partition of India, is up live this Saturday at 2:30pm ET. Reviews from Guardian and Arts Desk.

For those contemplating a road trip to Glimmerglass this summer, Induction Weekend at the Baseball Hall of Fame is July 25-28.  Don't pick that weekend if you need a room or restaurants within forty miles. Oh wait, they're inducting Joe Torre...make that eighty miles.

spy shot

Le Roi Malgré Lui rehearsal room

Dog Days in Annandale

Bard Music Festival is scoping Saint-Saëns this year, but since this festival is always "Composer Y and His World" (I think they have yet to do a "Composer X and Her World", not surprisingly), there's a lot of other stuff going on for the "World" part. So it's worth it to click on the little Browse the Brochure doodad in the left hand column to get the opera (Chabrier), the play (Molière), the film festival (France & the Colonial Imagination), and the Spiegeltent dope as well as the concerts, lectures and panel discussions. Or you can start from here if you don't mind some cumbersome web navigation.

On a totally unrelated note, the Met will be streaming the Makropulos Case prima here on Friday at 8:30 ET.

Kingdoms of Leon

Bard annexes Longy.

Aston Magna at Bard and elsewhere

Arrived in the post today, the Aston Magna at Bard schedule...which, hey, starts next week.  Four programs encompassing some Bachs, Mozart + Hummel, a Court of Henry VIII thing, and The Italian Madrigal and its Legacy, which looks like fun plus there's a theorbo involved, which is always a win for me. And Olin Hall is a nice venue, if desperate for a new color scheme, and even though I wouldn't have named a Humanities building after that guy, but whatever...

Aston Magna is a floating festival, though, and the full schedule and its other venues can be found on its website, where you can buy tickets to the other venues but not to the dates @ Bard (for these buzz 845-758-7887).