In music news...

The COC announces its first new opera project since 1999. Rufus Wainwright gets another go at writing an opera.  My take, and better, the comments on my take are here.  I also liked Peter Tiefenbach's tweet.  "Neef hat der Ihrfisch gesprungen".

Also two more DVD reviews; a rather unsatisfactory Tristan und Isolde and a very good Turn of the Screw.

Winter riding

Winter is definitely with us in Toronto.  There's been a tiny amount of snow and temperatures are mostly hovering around freezing.  I am still biking to and from work.  It's daylight, more or less, when I leave for work and I usually get back before dark so that part isn't too scary.  I think I can definitely cope with -5 (it's quite a short journey) but I think -10 would be getting into quite challenging territory.  We shall see.  I have done 260 Bixi trips since I bought the subscription in April so I think that was $100 well spent.