Don Giovanni

... our travels and my photos, but be advised everyone can see them, so thanks for being courteous Here is hoping that we don't fly right into a new French Revolution! Who would have thought our problems would begin on Day one in a first world country? ...

... us and we refocused our excitement on our next farm in Emilia Romagna, which we bumped forward a week.  If at first you don't succeed... We did learn, however, that Genna is far superior at milking goats than the ever-frustrated Lauren!     ...

... small dog i have felt a bond with (Hey Tex, I consider Buckwheat a pre-medium, so he is cool).  When dogs are real small, i don't know what it is, i just don't think of them as real dogs, it's like they are posing as dogs, but are really more like ...

... that it'll take some follow-up work at home for a lot of it to sink in properly, so the Italian speakers out there, please don't expect too much difference just yet! We're writing down and learning new words and phrases by the dozens each day, and one by ...

... have one run in while waiting in line for the washroom. It went like this "Generic Italian Phrase" Me "I'm sorry I don't speak italian." THem "Ohhhhh, are you american??" Angrily... might i add ME "Nope, Canadian" THem" Ahhhh, wonderful! ...

... 't you sit quietly like these other children?"  It was a long flight.  The point of this introduction is this:  Giovanni has been replaced.  As Paul and I were heading north from wine country to Brisbane, we decided to break up the ...

... , though, photos are only allowed in the outdoor areas. Near both Davids, there is a smaller bronze sculpture of Mercury by Giovanni Bologna. (If you read that like the sliced meat, smack yourself.) It's a very interesting pose- he's balanced on one foot ...

... him backwards" and we all laughed. It was wonderful. The above prose is a lie, forged for your entertainment. We actually watched Don Giovanni. There are no real cats in Cats. I hope you enjoyed it. The following prose walks a fine line between reality ...

... that we knew we wanted to see, mainly Don Giovanni at the Estates Theater. It was at this theater that Mozart opened Don Giovanni and I’d only been outside the theater. The program was not available until just this past week and Don Giovanni was ...

... performance - the only one going in March was "Don Giovanni", but it was in the oldest marionette theatre in Prague. "Why Don Giovanni chopped the head off his rival and why the ghost took Don Giovanni away?" would provide endless question periods by ...

... of work, done after his return to Prague, provided me with a different view of his art. And then there was Mozart. His opera "Don Giovanni" debuted in the Estates Theater on Oct. 29, 1789. We attended a performance in that same theater, which still looks ...

... a wonderful lunch at a small basement pub near church. From there we ambled through the town to the Stavovske divadlo where Mozart's Don Giovanni premiered in 1787. We had tickets for Chorea Bohemia. We all thought it was going to be a choral concert. ...

... right off of Charles Bridge and enjoyed a few beers while sitting outside on the water. That evening, we saw the opera Don Giovanni at the Estates' Theater.  This theater is where Mozart staged the premier of Don Giovanni in 1787.  The ...

... to Don Giovanni's, but it wasn't open. We waited for it to open. We went to the plaza. We went to the tourist shop. Don Giovanni's still wasn't open. Will it open? No, it's Sunday night. We found another restaurant. It was quite nice. Lovely. Cute the ...

... "An Hour with Mozart". It was a short selection of scenes from three of Mozart's operas: "The Abduction from the Seraglio", "Don Giovanni", and "The Magic Flute". The theater also had a Sound of Music show that day with marionettes using marionettes, I ...

... we had to force ourselves through. Upon arriving we found out that it was the opening day of the two week long Easter festival. I don't know if the crowds were from this or the fact that is the season for Spring Break. I think that the latter might be ...

... except for the wiring for electric lights and plumbing for modern flush toilets. This is the theater where Mozart opened Don Giovanni, conducting the opera himself and Paganini, Clara Schumann and Wagner performed here. The interior is mostly blue velvet ...

... most of my one full day in the city. On the drunken walk home, Katherine had mentioned that she'd been to see Mozart's Don Giovanni a few days previous and had bought scalped tickets outside the concert hall a few hours before. I decided to make this my ...