chickenfeet

Comment to this post, and I will list seven things I would be interested to hear you to talk about. They might make sense or they might be totally random.

Then post that list, with your commentary, to your journal. Other people can get lists from you, and the meme merrily perpetuates itself.

1. If you had to pick just one of wine, women or song, which one would it be?

To this I say "Sempre Libera"!  Would I rather cut off my arm or my leg?  Besides most of the women in my life drink and sing.

2. What production of what opera (assuming time travel if necessary) would have most like to have seen?

A couple of things suggest themselves for different reasons.  It would be interesting to have seen the opening night of, say, Le Nozze di Figaro because of all the spouting from the HIP folks; especially with respect to size of voice and acting style.  Another part of me would be very curious to hear a real castrato so one of Handel's show pieces like Ariodante would be good.

3. In the alternate universe, what would your career be?

I imagine alternative universe career counsellors would have been about as much use as the ones in this one.  I think I would rather like to be an opera company GM.  The commercial and quantitative side of the business interests me quite as much as the artistic side.  I might be that rare thing, an Intendant who actually sought to understand current and potential audiences.

4. If you were an animal, what sort of animal would you be?

A very sleepy one probably.  Possibly a grizzly bear.

5. If you were a character in a novel, who would you prefer it to be a novel by?

Not Simon Raven!  Perhaps Douglas Adams.  At least life wouldn't be dull.

6. What historical personage would you most like to meet?

I strongly suspect one would be rather disappointed here whoever one chose.  I'm going to pick Arthur Wellesley for two reasons.  It would be interesting to get to grips with an actual conservative rather than a thieving plutocrat and I'm just curious about what he thought was going on at Ligny/Waterloo as I'm pretty convinced the standard English language accounts have it contextualised all wrong.

7. What question do you wish someone would ask you?

Hard to say.  If there were a question I really wanted to address I'd do so regardless of whether anyone had asked it or not.

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