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Constance has a small Swedish (not a giant Greek) horse.

Lucky Constance went to the Star Cinema again for  another Live in HD presentation from the Metropolitan Opera. Today’s opera was the epic Les Troyens by Hector Berlioz. Based on “The Aeneid”, it was five hours long.  Constance enjoyed the company, the cheese and crackers at the first intermission and the pizza break at the second intermission.  And of course, the fabulous music, the set changes, the intermission interviews and the entire experience.

Constance was rather smitten with the new tenor, Bryan Hymel who jumped in when the original tenor quit.  She harbours no illusions about the Aeneas character though, he is a noble warrior but Constance is not thrilled about the trail of corpses he leaves strewn behind him as he leaps from adventure to adventure…for some somewhat different versions of the Trojan War story, check these books: The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood; Lavinia by Ursula K. LeGuin; and The Gate to Women’s Country by Sheri S. Tepper.

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To view Constance’s other opera reviews go to this link.

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