From the hills above Tesuque, NM 12 noon August 21 2010
We started the day with breakfast at the Encantado Resort near Tesuque where we met up with our old friend Matthew Epstein who is here for the 40th successive year. Some sort of record surely! So he is something of an authority on this wonderful company and, as usual, full of wise and amusing observations!
This evening we are at the performance of Albert Herring which has been enthusiatically received - the cast is fabulous and with Andrew Davis in charge in the pit and with a new production by Paul Curran it is an evening to look forward to. It is for me a piece of some significance. It had its premiere at my "alma mater", Glyndebourne, in 1947; I introduced it to Wexford in 1970, and we brought it back to Glyndebourne in Peter Hall's famous production in 1985. I then was responsible for a splendid production by Martin Duncan at the Canadian Opera Company in 1990. So its about time I did it somewhere again - maybe COT?
Otherwise it is a hot afternoon, just the thing for a long languid bask in the sun before going up to the opera in time for the 8.30 curtain.
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