Today's Globe and Mail carries a report on Rugby Canada's new home in BC. One of my kids from my coaching days is quoted.

Lucas Hammond, 18, is already a rugby player and is among the first to benefit from a central home for the sport. He moved to Langford two months ago from Toronto ( Read more... )

I seem to have picked up the respiratory virus that is doing the rounds. It has settled down into a dry, hacking cough but it's playing hell with my exercise programme as even a modest level of activity brings on a debilitating coughing fit ( Read more... )

Last night we were at the Glenn Gould Opera School's production of Cavalli's La Calisto. There was plenty of cross dressing, some goat on goat action and a bear. More...

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Today's free concert in the RBA was students from the University of Toronto singing art songs by Nordic composers. More...

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The DVD of Laurent Pelly's Covent Garden production of Donizetti's La Fille du Régiment is great fun. More...

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Last night we were out in the industrial west end for an eclectic programme of Reich, Britten, Adams and Weill from the ever intriguing Against the Grain Theatre. More...

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I've posted here about John Adams' Doctor Atomic a couple of times. I've gone from skeptic to strong advocate Most recently I had a chance to review the DVDs of the Amsterdam production. More...

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Last night Judith Weir's new opera Miss Fortune opened to truly dismal reviews. Would better project management have helped?

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Another DVD derived from Southern Television's annual broadcasts from Glyndebourne. It's Beethoven, it's Fidelio and the production aesthetic is a little more modern. More...

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In 1975 Glyndebourne staged a production of Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress with designs by David Hockney. More...

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