Euryanthe

 Today's highlight was watching a production of Weber's opera Euryanthe from the Theater an der Wien which popped up in YouTube.

The work is a crazy story with a bad libretto, but the score is wonderful. It also struck me how similar some parts of the story are to Wagner's Lohengrin - Lysiart and Eglantine are very like Telramund and Ortrud. It turned out I'm not the first to notice the similarities; Euryanthe is a work Wagner would have known, may have conducted it, and he would have been influenced by other aspects. In particular, the way the work is through-composed.

Unfortunately the production didn't do much to alleviate the work's innate faults, but it was well sung and played.

In other news, the doctor got back to me about the x-rays, without anything really useful. I'm going to arrange a session with the physio at the Health Centre.

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