SebaSM Comics are still Vancouver-themed this week, focusing on the nature side of things… Click the images to see this week’s updates!
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SebaSM Comics Digest, Week of Mar. 30th
The 100th SebaSM Comic went up on Tuesday this week, kicking off a bit of catch up on my trip to Vancouver! Click here to start with this milestone comic! 😉
SebaSM Comics Digest, Weeks of Mar. 10th and 17th
I missed my weekly update last week because I was out of the country, but I did have two normally scheduled SebaSM Comics during my trip, and two more new comics this week too!
Today’s update is Bizarro Twins appropriate, since it’s vaguely inspired by Donizetti‘s Lucia di Lammermoor, which I saw this week at the Metropolitan Opera. Not based on any of the big iconic moments really, just some old school relationship stuff as seen through a 21st century lens, of course…
Here’s a clip from the Met’s production in a previous season with Natalie Dessay:
Pearl Fishing
Well, I’m back from Vancouver, but on one of my last days there I saw a work-in-progress dance performance by local company 605 Collective at the Vancouver International Dance Festival. which I enjoyed, but after a mostly electronic soundtrack, I was surprised that the piece ended to the tune of Enrico Caruso singing this aria from Bizet‘s 1863 Pearl Fishers opera:
Probably the best known piece from this opera, but if you want to see the full picture, it’ll be receiving its first Met Opera production in 100 years in the forthcoming 2015-2016 season:
Vancouver Mountain Majesty
Since I’m in Vancouver for the week, I’ve been thinking about my favorite Vancouverite cartoonist, Angela Melick of Wasted Talent!
Copyright Angela Melick
This is kind of like New York last week, nasty winter suddenly giving way to mild spring… Though we don’t have the same sort of majestic natural setting… One stereotype I’ve formed about Vancouver thanks to Angela is the importance of extreme outdoor sports… so will bust out my hiking boots! Or walking boots at least…
Maybe she’s the only Vancouverite cartoonist I know, actually… But you can see her depiction of her town by looking through her Vancouver tag!
Putting the Canadian in Canadian Opera Company
So I’m in Vancouver, Canada for a week, and considering the last opera I saw was the Canadian Opera Company‘s performance of Semele at BAM last week it seems fitting to discuss their forthcoming season, which, fittingly, features the world premiere of a Canadian Opera!
In October, COC will give the world premiere of Barbara Monk Feldman‘s short 2010 opera, Pyramus and Thisbe. It’s based on a tale from antiquity so the COC is presenting it alongside two short, similarly classically themed, pieces by the grandfather of opera, Claudio Monteverdi: a scena for three voices and an aria, which is the only fragment to survive from his second opera, L’Arianna, performed below by Italian soprano Anna Caterina Antonacci:
Here’s hoping I can make a return trip to Canada for this interesting early opera/premiere opera combo!
SebaSM Comics Digest, Week of March 9th
Just ne new SebaSM Comic this week, and one dummy illustration since I’m traveling today! Off to Vancouver for a week, but there will be normally scheduled Tuesday / Thursday updates in the meantime!
