Last night we were at the Bridgewater Hall in Manchester for Opera North's production of Richard Strauss , Elekta. Susan Bullock fell ill during the day and at incredibly short notice Janice Cairns covered ( she was most nervous and afterwards her relief was palpable) , she got applause to compensate and showed appreciation of her efforts. The music is indeed Elektrafying, at a loud exciting gallop all the way through, its just a one act no interval, phew. The promised snow never really happened in Cheshire other than a sprinkling although it did snow a little this teatime. In London an inch of snow and all buses were cancelled, isn't it so pathetic. The only recent snow scenes I have were in New Zealand in January when we nearly got stranded on Franz Josef glazier.
