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The Metropolitan Opera 2017-18 Full Season Announced To Include Tosca, Norma, Requiem, Così & Two Met Premieres by Photojournalist Lisa Pacino

The Metropolitan Opera, New York announced its complete 2017-18 season today, February 15, 2017. Tosca, Norma, Requiem, Così fan tutte will be among the nineteen revivals, along with five new productions, two Met Opera premieres, and one special series of performances.

The Metropolitan Opera House, Lincoln Center, New York, 2016. Photograph by Lisa Pacino.

Prior to today’s announcement, last summer the Met confirmed that the season would open with a new production of Bellini’s Norma with Sondra Radvanovksy. It was also made known that David McVicar would direct a new production of Puccini’s Tosca and Anna Netrebko would make her role debut as Tosca and would alternate with Kristine Opolais. Met General Manager Peter Gelb has stated the season had added Verdi’s Il Trovatore for Netrebko.

Photography by Celebrity Photojournalist Lisa Pacino of Under The Duvet Productions, NY. All Rights Reserved. Various MET photos.

Maestro James Levine and soprano Jessye Norman, Waldorf-Astoria, New York, 2013. Photograph by Lisa Pacino.

Maestro James Levine and Ailyn Pérez sharing a moment, Waldorf-Astoria, New York, 2013. Photograph by Lisa Pacino.

Mezzo-soprano Marilyn Horne and Maestro James Levine, Waldorf-Astoria, New York, 2013. Photograph by Lisa Pacino.

Maestro James Levine and Plácido Domingo sharing a moment, Waldorf-Astoria, New York, 2013. Photograph by Lisa Pacino.

Sopranos Deborah Voight and Susan Graham, Waldorf-Astoria, New York, 2016. Photograph by Lisa Pacino.

Sherrill Milnes, Deborah Voight, Susan Graham, and Ben Heppner, Waldorf-Astoria, New York, 2016. Photograph by Lisa Pacino.

Renata Scotto and Ailyn Pérez, Waldorf-Astoria, New York, 2013. Photograph by Lisa Pacino

Florence Quivar, Sherrill Milnes, Ailyn Pérez, and Eric Owens, Waldorf-Astoria, New York, 2013. Photograph by Lisa Pacino

Susan Graham and Rosalind Elias, Waldorf-Astoria, New York, 2016. Photograph by Lisa Pacino.

Plácido Domingo and Martina Arroyo, Waldorf-Astoria, New York, 2015. Photograph by Lisa Pacino.

The Metropolitan Opera’s 2017-18 season will feature 220 performances of 26 works, including two Met premieres, one co-commissioned by the company and one an older masterpiece having its first Met performances; a variety of repertory favorites, three in new productions; and performances of Verdi’s towering concert work for soloists, orchestra, and chorus, the Requiem. The 2017-18 season was announced by Met General Manager Peter Gelb.
The season opens on September 25 with a new production of Bellini’s Norma, conducted by Carlo Rizzi, directed by Sir David McVicar, and starring Sondra Radvanovsky, one of the world’s leading interpreters of the role, opposite Joyce DiDonato as Adalgisa and Joseph Calleja as Pollione. On October 26, composer Thomas Adès conducts the North American premiere of his The Exterminating Angel, a Met co-commission, based on the screenplay by Luis Buñuel and Luis Alcoriza of Buñuel’s 1962 absurdist film. The opera, which will be sung in English, will be staged by the librettist Tom Cairns, who is making his company debut. A new production of Puccini’s Tosca will open on New Year’s Eve, with Andris Nelsons conducting Sir David McVicar’s staging. Kristine Opolais stars in the title role opposite Jonas Kaufmann as her devoted lover Cavaradossi and Bryn Terfel as Scarpia. Later performances will star Anna Netrebko as the title character with Marcelo Álvarez as Cavaradossi and Michael Volle as Scarpia. A new staging of Così fan tutte, set in the 1950s on Coney Island, opens March 15 and is conducted by David Robertson and directed by Phelim McDermott. The new production will star an ensemble cast including Tony Award winner Kelli O’Hara in her role debut as the maid Despina. On April 12, Massenet’s operatic adaptation of the Cinderella story, Cendrillon, has its Met premiere, conducted by Bertrand de Billy and directed by Laurent Pelly, with Joyce DiDonato in the title role and Alice Coote as Prince Charming. In November and December, Met Music Director Emeritus James Levine will conduct four concert performances of Verdi’s Requiem, featuring soloists Krassimira Stoyanova, Ekaterina Semenchuk, Aleksandrs Antonenko, and Ferruccio Furlanetto, along with the Met’s orchestra and chorus.
Among the season’s revivals are some rarely performed stagings, including Verdi’s Luisa Miller, starring Sonya Yoncheva, Piotr Beczala, and Plácido Domingo; Rossini’s Semiramide, last performed at the Met in 1993, with Angela Meade in the title role; and two recent new productions having their first revivals, François Girard’s staging of Wagner’s Parsifal and Patrice Chéreau’s celebrated production of Strauss’s Elektra.
The Met: Live in HD series, which transmits Met performances to more than 2,000 movie theaters in 71 countries around the world, continues for its 12th season. Ten performances from the season will be broadcast, beginning October 7 with the new production of Norma.
“We’re replenishing our core repertoire with new productions of Così fan tutte, Norma, and Tosca, while stretching our horizons with The Exterminating Angel and Cendrillon,” said Gelb. “It’s a season of repertory favorites and stimulating rarities, with something for neophytes and aficionados alike.”

New Productions

Norma – Vincenzo Bellini OPENING NIGHT: September 25, 2017; Conductors: Carlo Rizzi / Joseph Colaneri; Production: Sir David McVicar; Set Designer: Robert Jones; Costume Designer: Moritz Junge; Lighting Designer: Paule Constable; Movement Director: Leah Hausman; Live in HD: October 7, 2017.
The season opens with a new production of Bellini’s Bel Canto tragedy Norma, starring Sondra Radvanovsky in the title role, which she has sung to acclaim at the Met in 2013, as well as at the Canadian Opera Company, San Francisco Opera, Bavarian State Opera, Gran Teatre del Liceu, and Lyric Opera of Chicago-making her one of the world’s leading interpreters of the iconic title character. Joyce DiDonatoco-stars as Norma’s colleague and rival, Adalgisa, opposite Joseph Calleja as Pollione and Matthew Rose as Oroveso. On October 16 and 20, Marina Rebeka will make her Met role debut as the Druid priestess, Norma. Beginning December 1, the production will star Angela Meade as Norma with Jamie Barton reprising the role of Adalgisa and led by Joseph Colaneri. Sir David McVicar directs the production, having staged seven Met productions including Verdi’s Il Trovatore, Handel’s Giulio Cesare, the double bill of Mascagni’s Cavalleria Rusticana and Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci, and Donizetti’s Anna Bolena, Maria Stuarda, and Roberto Devereux.
The Exterminating Angel – Thomas Adès MET PREMIERE: Opening October 26, 2017; Conductor: Thomas Adès; Libretto: Tom Cairns, in collaboration with the composer; Production: Tom Cairns; Set and Costume Designer: Hildegard Bechtler; Lighting Designer: Jon Clark; Projection Designer: Tal Yarden; Choreographer: Amir Hosseinpour; Live in HD: November 18, 2017.
The Exterminating Angel has its Met premiere, conducted by the composer, Thomas Adès. The 2016 opera, co-commissioned by the Met and sung in English, is based on the screenplay by Luis Buñuel and Luis Alcoriza for the acclaimed 1962 Buñuel film. Directed by the librettist Tom Cairns, the ensemble cast features Audrey Luna as Leticia Maynar; Amanda Echalaz as Lucia de Nobile; Sally Matthewsas Silvia de Ávila and Sophie Bevan as Beatriz, both in Met debuts; Alice Coote as Leonora Palma; Christine Rice as Blanca Delgado; Iestyn Davies as Francisco de Ávila; Joseph Kaiser as Edundo de Nobile;Frédéric Antoun in his Met debut as Raúl Yebenes; David Portillo as Edmundo; David Adam Moore in his Met debut as Col. Álvaro Gómez; Rod Gilfry as Alberto Roc; Kevin Burdette as Señor Russell;Christian Van Horn as Julio; and John Tomlinson as Dr Carlos Conde. The Exterminating Angel is a co-commission and co-production with the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden; Royal Danish Theatre; and Salzburg Festival, where the production premiered in 2016.
Tosca – Giacomo Puccini NEW YEAR’S EVE GALA: Opening December 31, 2017; Conductor: Andris Nelsons / Bertrand de Billy; Production: Sir David McVicar; Set and Costume Designer: John MacFarlane; Lighting Designer: David Finn; Movement Director: Leah Hausman; Live in HD: January 27, 2018.
Andris Nelsons conducts a new staging of Puccini’s dramatic tragedy, directed by Sir David McVicar. Kristine Opolais and Jonas Kaufmann star as the heroine Tosca and her lover Cavaradossi, withBryn Terfel as the villainous Scarpia. In April, Anna Netrebko adds a new role to her Met repertory as the title diva, opposite Marcelo Álvarez as Cavaradossi. Michael Volle and George Gagnidze share the role of Scarpia during April and May performances with Bertrand de Billy conducting.
Così fan tutte – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: OPENING NIGHT: March 15, 2018; Conductor: David Robertson; Production: Phelim McDermott; Set Designer: Tom Pye; Costume Designer: Laura Hopkins; Lighting Designer: Paule Constable; Live in HD: March 31, 2018.
Phelim McDermott returns to the Met with a new staging of Mozart’s comedy Così fan tutte, led by David Robertson. The production, set in Coney Island during the 1950s, features Amanda Majeskiand Serena Malfi as the conflicted sisters Fiordiligi and Dorabella; Tony Award winner Kelli O’Hara as their feisty maid, Despina; Ben Bliss and Adam Plachetka as the sisters’ fiancés, Ferrando and Guglielmo; and Christopher Maltman as the cynical Don Alfonso. Così fan tutte is a co-production with the English National Opera, where this staging premiered in 2014, in collaboration with Improbable.
Cendrillon – Jules Massenet MET PREMIERE: Opening: April 12, 2018; Conductor: Bertrand de Billy; Production: Laurent Pelly; Set Designer: Barbara de Limburg; Costume Designer: Laurent Pelly; Lighting Designer: Duane Schuler; Choreographer: Laura Scozzi; Live in HD: April 28, 2018.
Massenet’s enchanting opera Cendrillon, based on the Cinderella story, premieres at the Met conducted by Bertrand de Billy in a staging by Laurent Pelly, whose Met credits include staging Donizetti’sLa Fille du Régiment and Massenet’s Manon. Joyce DiDonato stars as the title character, a role she has sung to acclaim at the Gran Teatre del Liceu, The Santa Fe Opera, and Royal Opera, Covent Garden. The cast also features Kathleen Kim as the Fairy Godmother, Alice Coote as Prince Charming, Stephanie Blythe as the evil stepmother Madame de la Haltière, and Laurent Naouri as Pandolfe. Cendrillon is produced in association with the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London; Gran Teatre del Liceu, Barcelona; Théâtre Royal de La Monnaie, Brussels; and Opéra de Lille. This production was first performed at The Santa Fe Opera in 2006.
Requiem – Giuseppe Verdi CONCERT: Opening November 24, 2017; Conductor: James Levine. Met Music Director Emeritus James Levine will conduct four concert performances of Verdi’s Requiem, a powerful meditation on death, featuring soloists Krassimira Stoyanova, Ekaterina Semenchuk, Aleksandrs Antonenko, and Ferruccio Furlanetto, along with the Met’s orchestra and chorus.

Noteworthy Met Debuts

Notable Met debuts this season include Irish mezzo-soprano Tara Erraught as Nicklausse in Les Contes d’Hoffmann (September 26); South African soprano Golda Schultz as Pamina in Die Zauberflöte (September 27); British conductor Alexander Soddy leading La Bohème (October 2); American soprano Angel Blue as Mimì in La Bohème (October 2); British soprano Sally Matthews as Silvia de Ávila in The Exterminating Angel (October 26): Italian conductor Jader Bignamini leading Madama Butterfly (November 2); German soprano Christiane Karg as Susanna in Le Nozze di Figaro (December 6); American conductor Ward Stare leading The Merry Widow (December 14); Venezuelan conductor Domingo Hindoyan leading L’Elisir d’Amore (January 16); Italian baritone Davide Luciano as Belcore in L’Elisir d’Amore (January 16); German soprano Evelyn Herlitzius as Kundry in Parsifal (February 5); German mezzo-soprano Michaela Schuster as Klytämnestra in Elektra (March 1); and Russian bass Alexander Vinogradov as Walter in Luisa Miller (March 29). In addition, Lithuanian conductor Mirga Gražinyt?-Tyla makes her first Met appearance, leading the MET Orchestra in a Carnegie Hall concert on May 18.

Repertory Highlights

The 2017-18 season will feature 20 revivals of works by 14 composers starring many of the world’s leading opera singers and conductors.
Met Music Director Emeritus James Levine conducts Mozart’s opera, Die Zauberflöte, sung in full-length performances in its original German. The cast features Golda Schultz as Pamina, Kathryn Lewek as the Queen of the Night, Charles Castronovo as Tamino, Markus Werba as Papageno, Christian Van Horn as Sprecher, and Tobias Kehrer as Sarastro.
Il Trovatore, also conducted by Levine, stars Maria Agresta as Leonora, Anita Rachvelishvili as Azucena, YongHoon Lee as Manrico, Quinn Kelsey and Luca Salsi as Count di Luna, and Štefan Kocánand Kwangchul Youn as Ferrando.
Levine also conducts a rare revival of Luisa Miller, which has not been seen at the Met since 2006. Sonya Yoncheva sings the title role, opposite Piotr Beczala as Luisa’s lover Rodolfo, in the story of a young woman who sacrifices her own happiness in an attempt to save her father’s life. The cast also includes Plácido Domingo as Luisa’s father Miller with Olesya Petrova as Federica, and Alexander Vinogradov and Dmitry Belosselskiy as Walter and Wurm, the ruthless men determined to tear Luisa and Rodolfo apart.
Met Music Director Designate Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts a revival of Parsifal, starring Klaus Florian Vogt in the title role, with Evelyn Herlitzius as Kundry, Peter Mattei as Amfortas, Evgeny Nikitin as Klingsor, and René Pape as Gurnemanz.
In March, Nézet-Séguin returns to the Met to conduct Elektra starring Christine Goerke in the title role, with Elza van den Heever as Chrysothemis, Michaela Schuster as Klytämnestra, Jay Hunter Morris as Aegisth, and Mikhail Petrenko as Orest.
Rossini’s rarity set in ancient Babylon, Semiramide, which has not been seen at the Met in 25 years, will be conducted by Maurizio Benini and feature Angela Meade in the title role, with Elizabeth DeShong as Arsace, Javier Camarena as Idreno, Ildar Abdrazakov as Assur, and Ryan Speedo Green as Oroe.
Ailyn Pérez stars in her role debut as the title character in Thaïs opposite Gerald Finley as Athanaël, with Jean-François Borras as Nicias and David Pittsinger as Palémon. The performances will be conducted by EmManuel Villaume.
Les Contes d’Hoffmann, conducted by Johannes Debus, stars Vittorio Grigolo as Hoffmann with Erin Morley as Olympia, Anita Hartig as Antonia/Stella, Oksana Volkova as Giulietta, Tara Erraught as Nicklausse/The Muse, Laurent Naouri as the Four Villains, and Christophe Mortagne as the Four Servants.
Three Puccini revivals will be presented in the 2017-18 season. La Bohème stars Angel Blue as Mimì, opposite Dmytro Popov as Rodolfo with Brigitta Kele as Musetta and Lucas Meachem as Marcello. Later performances star Anita Hartig and Sonya Yoncheva as Mimì; Jean-François Borras, Russell Thomas, and Michael Fabiano as Rodolfo; and Michael Todd Simpson as Marcello. The opera will be conducted by Alexander Soddy and Marco Armiliato.
Madama Butterfly stars Hui He and Ermonela Jaho as Cio-Cio-San with Maria Zifchak as Suzuki, Roberto Aronica and Luis Chapa as Pinkerton, and David Bizic, DWayne Croft, and Roberto Frontali as Sharpless. Jader Bignamini and Marco Armiliato conduct all performances.
Turandot features Oksana Dyka and Martina Serafin sharing the title role of the icy princess, with Maria Agresta, Hei-Kyung Hong, and Guanqun Yu as Liù. Marcelo Álvarez reprises the role of Calàf, and James Morris and Alexander Tsymbalyuk share the role of Timur.
Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro stars Rachel Willis-Sørensen and Sonya Yoncheva as the Countess, Christiane Karg and Nadine Sierra as Susanna, Serena Malfi and Isabel Leonard as Cherubino, Luca Pisaroniand Mariusz Kwiecien as the Count, and Adam Plachetka and Ildar Abdrazakov as the title character. Harry Bicket conducts all performances.
Susan Graham reprises Hanna Glawari in The Merry Widow conducted by Ward Stare. The cast also includes Andriana Chuchman as Valencienne, Paul Groves as Danilo, David Portillo as Camille de Rosillon, and Thomas Allen as Baron Mirko Zeta.
The double bill of Cavalleria Rusticana and Pagliacci is conducted by Nicola Luisotti, which features Roberto Alagna in the leading tenor roles of Turiddu in Cavalleria Rusticana and Canio inPagliacci. Cavalleria Rusticana also features Ekaterina Semenchuk and Eva-Maria Westbroek as Santuzza, and Željko Lu?i? as Alfio. Pagliacci stars Aleksandra Kurzak as Nedda, George Gagnidze as Tonio, and Alessio Arduini as Silvio.
Pretty Yende and Matthew Polenzani star as the spirited Adina and Nemorino, the simple peasant who falls in love with her, in L’Elisir d’Amore, which also stars Davide Luciano as Belcore andIldebrando D’Arcangelo as Dulcamara. All performances are conducted by Domingo Hindoyan.
Lucia di Lammermoor returns to the Met starring Olga Peretyatko, Jessica Pratt, and Pretty Yende in the title role. Vittorio Grigolo and Michael Fabiano share the role of Edgardo with Massimo Cavalletti, Luca Salsi, and Quinn Kelsey as Enrico and Vitalij Kowaljow and Alexander Vinogradov as Raimondo. Roberto Abbado conducts all performances.
Ailyn Pérez and Bryan Hymel star as the doomed lovers in Roméo et Juliette with Joshua Hopkins as Mercutio and Kwangchul Youn as Frère Laurent. Plácido Domingo conducts all performances.
Holiday Presentations: The Met will stage two holiday presentations during the 2017-18 season: Julie Taymor’s production of Mozart’s The Magic Flute and Richard Jones’s staging of Humperdinck’s Hansel and Gretel. Continuing a tradition that began in 2006, the English-language, abridged performances, designed to make the opera more accessible, will be sold at reduced ticket prices for both operas. The cast of The Magic Flute includes Hanna-Elisabeth Müller as Pamina, Kathryn Lewek as the Queen of the Night, Charles Castronovo as Tamino, Nathan Gunn as Papageno, AlFRed Walker as the Speaker, and Tobias Kehrer as Sarastro. Edo de Waart will conduct the performances beginning November 25. The cast of Hansel and Gretel features Lisette Oropesa as Gretel, Tara Erraught as Hansel, Dolora Zajick as Gertrude, Gerhard Siegel as the Witch, and Quinn Kelsey as Peter. Donald Runnicles will conduct the performances opening on December 18.

Notable Missing

German soprano Diana Damrau will not be returning this season. Unfortunately, she was ill during the 2016-17 season, but still garnered adoration for her work in Roméo et Juliette and for her first performance in I Puritani, she made her Met debut in 2005. Others who will be missed this season include Peruvian tenor Juan Diego Flórez, but he will be at the 50th Anniversary gala; Puerto Rican-American soprano Ana María Martinez who made a huge breakout in Madama Butterfly last season becoming one of the most popular singers in the world at this moment; American tenor Lawrence Brownlee known for his flawless Rossini operas will surely be missed this season; Swedish soprano Nina Stemme who was part of the 2015-16 in Turandot and Elektra before opening the 2016-17 season in Tristan und Isolde; Italian soprano Barbara Frittoli who was part of Met HD productions in Mozart’s Don Giovanni and La Clemenza di Tito; American baritone Thomas Hampson, one of the Met’s most popular artists, he’s been at the Met for almost every single season since Peter Gelb took over the company, but is retiring the production of Verdi’s La Traviata this season and he will be featured in the Met’s Live in HD series; American soprano Patricia Racette one of the biggest stars at the Metropolitan Opera for many years and has received rave reviews for her recent Salome at the Met, but she will return to the house for Cyrano de Bergerac; Finnish soprano Karita Matilla who appeared in the 2016-17 season in Jenufa; American soprano Tamara Wilson who was triumphant at the Richard Tucker Gala will not appear this season; Latvian mezzo-soprano Elīna Garanča was a huge asset for the Metropolitan Opera as she has been featured in Donizetti’s Roberto Devereux, but has been making waves in Europe in new roles.

February 18, 2017 revision and updates

Metropolitan Opera General Manager Peter Gelb has cancelled plans to stage Damiano Micheletto’s Samson et Dalila, a new production that was scheduled for the 2017-18 season. This is the second major cancellation that Peter Gelb has announced in the past two months. In December he announced that the Calixto Bieto production of Verdi’s La Forza del Destino would be cancelled due to budgetary reason. However, that was not the first time Gelb was forced to make a major switch. Luc Bondy was originally slated to direct Verdi’s Rigoletto but after the tepid response at the Theater an der Wien, Gelb opted for Michael Mayer’s Las Vegas production.
Alongside the announcement Gelb noted that Met was considering a new future production of Verdi’s Don Carlos in the original French, which the company has never presented. The production would replace the current production by Nicholas Hytner. There was no indication of which of the opera’s many different musical versions would be showcased in French. McVicar added that he will return to the Met in a future season for the company premiere of Handel’s Agrippina starring Joyce DiDonato, who is slated for Massenet’s Cendrillon and Bellini’s Norma.
According to the AP, Gelb said, “Michieletto is a very talented director, however, this production of Samson just didn’t click with the Parisian public.” As a matter of fact the production was booed when opened last year at the Opera de Paris. Michieletto restructured the opera’s narrative, subverting and inverting major elements in the original story. For example, Samson, not Dalila, cuts off his own hair while Dalila, not Samson, destroys the temple at the end of the opera. As a result of this switch, the opera will be directed by by Darko Tresniak of Hartford Stage.

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For the past two years, the Met has hosted an Open House for families, attracting hundreds of young audience members for behind-the-scenes displays and demonstrations by members of the Met’s backstage staff. This season, the Met will offer an Open House before the matinee performance of Hansel and Gretel on Thursday, December 28. Ticket Information and Audience Development Initiatives: Ticket prices will not increase in 2017-18, remaining the same as in the two previous seasons. Prices will once again range from $25 to $480 for the 3,800 seats in the opera house. Approximately 40 percent of Met tickets will cost less than $100 and 58 percent will cost less than $150. Subscriptions for the 2017-18 season are available now, and single tickets will go on sale to the general public on June 25, 2017. Subscription tickets will be significantly less expensive than single tickets, with a discount of 15% versus single-sale prices. This year, the company will once again offer advance exchange privileges to subscribers. Other subscriber benefits introduced in recent seasons, including the elimination of exchange fees, will continue in the coming season. Any audience member who purchases tickets to five or more performances will receive a discount of 10 percent on their order. This applies to “Create Your Own” subscription purchasers and to regular subscribers who add on single tickets to their subscription packages. The Rush Tickets program will return in 2017-18, making more than 30,000 $25 tickets available to the general public. Rush Tickets can be purchased on a first-come first-serve basis by logging on tometopera.org at 12 p.m. for weekday performances, 2 p.m. for Saturday evening performances, and 4 hours before curtain for matinee performances. The Met Opera Students program will return in 2017-18, offering $35 tickets to many operas to student members of the program. The Students program will also offer invitations to artist lectures, discounts at the Met Opera Shop, and the opportunity to meet other opera lovers at special student events. The “Fridays Under 40” audience development program will continue for a third season. Participants will enjoy discounted tickets and themed receptions before performances of Les Contes d’Hoffmann(October 13), The Exterminating Angel (November 3), Madama Butterfly (November 17), Le Nozze di Figaro (December 15), The Merry Widow (January 5), Il Trovatore (January 26), La Bohème (February 16),Elektra (March 9), Lucia di Lammermoor (March 30), and Così fan tutte (April 13). Fridays Under 40 tickets will go on sale June 25, 2017.
Front of House: The lobby of the Metropolitan Opera House will continue to be open to the public, free of charge, on weekday mornings (10 a.m. to 2 p.m.) and Sundays (11 a.m. to 4 p.m.) beginning Tuesday, September 26 and continuing through the end of the opera season; on Saturdays, the house is open only to ticket holders for one of the day’s two performances. Visitors coming to the Met can walk up the famous grand staircase of the opera house, admire the iconic crystal chandeliers, or step out onto the balcony overlooking Lincoln Center Plaza. Personal photography will be permitted in all public areas of the house, allowing tourists or locals to capture a picture of a classic New York moment. In addition, a large television monitor will give visitors a live look at what’s happening on the Met stage, where rehearsals happen every morning for the 220 opera performances the company presents each season. Refreshments will be available for purchase. During the opera season, the Grand Tier Restaurant will be open for brunch service on Sundays between 11 a.m. and 2:30 p.m. Reservations can be made by calling (212) 799-3400 or visitingmetopera.org. In addition, brunch patrons can enjoy a free 20-minute recital by a member of the Met’s acclaimed Lindemann Young Artist Development Program at 12:15 and 1:30 p.m. each Sunday.
Live Simulcasts and Summer Events: In keeping with a tradition begun on Opening Night in 2006, the September 25 season premiere performance of Norma will be transmitted live to numerous large screens in Times Square. The Times Square relay of the Opening Night Gala is presented in cooperation with the City of New York and Times Square Arts. The live transmission to Times Square is made possible with the cooperation of the City of New York, with leadership support provided by Bloomberg Philanthropies. Additional funding is provided by the Metropolitan Opera Guild and Opera News. This program is also supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts, Art Works, and by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council. In Summer 2017, the Met’s two free summer series will return. The Summer Recital Series will again present Met artists in recital in each of the five boroughs, and the Summer HD Festival will show operas from the Live in HD series on a large screen at Lincoln Center Plaza to an audience of approximately 3,000 people per night. Together, the Met’s summer programs are expected to allow approximately 50,000 New Yorkers to experience the Met for free.
The Met: Live in HD 2017-18: The 2017-18 season of The Met: Live in HD will kick off October 7 with Norma. The series will continue with Die Zauberflöte (October 14), The Exterminating Angel (November 18), Tosca (January 27), L’Elisir d’Amore (February 10), La Bohème (February 24), Semiramide (March 10), Così fan tutte (March 31), Luisa Miller (April 14), and Cendrillon (April 28). The Met’s groundbreaking series launched in 2006 and quickly established the company as the world’s leading alternative cinema content provider. More than 21 million tickets have been sold since the series’ inception, and the series currently reaches more than 2,000 movie theaters in 71 countries around the world. A separate press release about the 2017-18 Live in HD season is also available. Tickets for the 10 transmissions in the 2017-18 Live in HD season will go on sale July 19, 2017 in the U.S. and Canada, with Met Members offered priority before tickets are made available to the general public. International ticket sales dates and details on ordering tickets for the 2017-18 Live in HD series vary from country to country and will be announced separately by individual distributors. The Met: Live in HD series is made possible by a generous grant from its founding sponsor, The Neubauer Family Foundation. Global sponsorship of The Met: Live in HD is provided by Bloomberg Philanthropies. Transmission of The Met: Live in HD in Canada is made possible thanks to the generosity of Jacqueline Desmarais, in memory of Paul G. Desmarais Sr. Within months of their initial live transmissions, the Live in HD programs are shown on PBS. The PBS series, Great Performances at the Met, is produced in association with PBS and WNET, with support from Toll Brothers, America’s luxury home builder®. Additional funding is provided by the National Endowment for the Arts.
The Met: HD Live in Schools: The Met’s HD Live in Schools program will continue for its 11th season, partnering with 45 school districts across the country to bring the Met’s live HD transmissions to students and teachers. This season, Die Zauberflöte, Tosca, L’Elisir d’Amore, Così fan tutte, and Cendrillon will be included in the program. The Met’s HD education program includes backstage visits for students, who learn how costumes and scenery are constructed; Q&As with artists; access to final dress rehearsals; in-school workshops; and teacher training workshops. Program and curriculum guides are created for in-school use in conjunction with HD screenings. HD Live in Schools is generously supported by Bank of America, with program support provided through a partnership with the New York City Department of Education.
The MET Orchestra at Carnegie Hall: The MET Orchestra continues its highly acclaimed annual series for three performances at Carnegie Hall in 2017-18. On May 18, 2018, the orchestra will perform Debussy’s Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune, Mussorgsky’s Songs and Dances of Death, and Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 4 with Mirga Gražinyt?-Tyla leading the orchestra in her Carnegie Hall debut, featuring mezzo-soprano Anita Rachvelishvili. On May 30, soloist James Ehnes will join Gianandrea Noseda and the MET orchestra for Mozart’s Violin Concerto No. 5 and Mahler’s Symphony No. 5. The series will conclude June 5 with Met Music Director Emeritus James Levine conducting the world premiere of Charles Wuorinen’s Eros and Nemesis in a program that also includes Brahms’s Symphony No. 4.
The Met/LCT New Works Program: The program continues to develop pieces for the opera and music theater stages. Ricky Ian Gordon, whose works 27 and A Coffin in Egypt received their New York premieres in the past year, is continuing work on Intimate Apparel, which Pulitzer Prize-winner Lynn Nottage has adapted from her play about an African-American seamstress in turn-of-the-century New York. Jeanine Tesori, a Tony winner for her musical Fun Home, is working with George Brant, who will adapt his play Grounded, about a female F16 fighter pilot reassigned to drone duty. Matthew Aucoin is working with playwright Sarah Ruhl on an adaptation of her play Eurydice, her take on the Orpheus myth. Aucoin has explored his fascination with the Orpheus myth in his dramatic cantata The Orphic Moment, which recently received its Salzburg premiere. David T. Little is developing an original idea with librettist Royce Vavrek, with whom he created the operas Dog Days and JFK, which premiered at Fort Worth Opera last year. Joshua Schmidt and librettist Dick Scanlan are continuing work on a project focusing on the creation of Frank Lloyd Wright’s “Fallingwater” house for 1930’s department store magnate Edgar Kaufmann. The Met/LCT New Works Program is funded by a generous gift to the Met from the Francis Goelet Charitable Trusts.
The Met on the Radio and the Web: The Met’s 87th consecutive Saturday Matinee Radio Broadcast season kicks off on December 2 with a live broadcast of Verdi’s Requiem and continues through the May 5 matinee of Roméo et Juliette. The broadcast season will once again be heard live over the Toll Brothers-Metropolitan Opera International Radio Network. Mary Jo Heath returns for her third season as host and Ira Siff returns for his 11th season as commentator for the broadcasts, which feature a range of dynamic intermission features, live backstage interviews with artists, and the ever-popular Opera Quiz. The 2017-18 Metropolitan Opera Saturdaymatinee radio broadcast season will be sponsored by Toll Brothers, America’s luxury homebuilder®, with generous long-term support from The Annenberg Foundation, The Neubauer Family Foundation, and the Vincent A. Stabile Endowment for Broadcast Media, and through contributions from listeners worldwide. Metropolitan Opera Radio on SiriusXM Channel 74 will present its 11th season as the country’s premier subscription radio channel dedicated to opera. Up to three live performances will be broadcast each week during the season, hosted by Mary Jo Heath with commentator William Berger, as well as historic broadcasts from the Met’s vast collection. The channel also features lively interviews and previews of upcoming Met performances. The live broadcast season begins with the Met’s Opening Night performance of Norma on September 25. Metropolitan Opera Radio on SiriusXM is available to subscribers in the United States and Canada. The Met will continue to stream one live performance per week during the 2017-18 season on its website at metopera.org.
Media Releases: The Met will continue to release performances from its vast archive of current and historic performances on CD, DVD, Blu-Ray, and digital platforms in the 2017-18 season, with the trademark artistic and production quality that has earned the company three consecutive Grammy Awards for Best Opera Recording. More than 70 titles are currently available for purchase through the iTunes store iTunes.com/metopera, including Live in HD and standard definition video performances, audio performances, and ringtones, with additional titles added throughout the year.
Met Opera on Demand: The Met’s exclusive streaming service now features more than 600 full-length Met performances, available worldwide on a growing number of platforms that now includes computers; Roku devices; Apple TV via Airplay; iPad; Android devices; and Samsung Smart TVs. The Met Opera on Demand library includes 100 presentations from the Live in HD series, as well as hundreds of telecasts and radio broadcasts dating back to 1935. Met Opera on Demand: Student Access allows university and college libraries to make this digital resource from the Met accessible to their student populations. Now in its fourth year, Student Access is currently available more than 100 schools around the world.

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The work of His fingers

Apollo 11I was at school 40 years ago when the USA Apollo 11 programme managed to put the first man on the moon with less processing power than my mobile phone. I was entranced by the whole adventure and have been fascinated by the space race ever since. I read today in The Church of England Newspaper that astronaut Buzz  Aldrin shared Holy Communion in thanks for a safe flight and was inspired to write our verses from Psalm 8 as he stared into the blackness of space from the lunar surface. The following are the only bible verses to be written and left on the moon:

A psalm of David.

 1 O LORD, our Lord,
       how majestic is your name in all the earth!
       You have set your glory
       above the heavens.

 2 From the lips of children and infants
       you have ordained praise [b]
       because of your enemies,
       to silence the foe and the avenger.

 3 When I consider your heavens,
       the work of your fingers,
       the moon and the stars,
       which you have set in place,

 4 what is man that you are mindful of him,
       the son of man that you care for him?

Truly awesome!

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Breaking out

Jewish Christian Steve Maltz the author of ‘How the church lost the way’– is passionate about  how the roots of our faith have been damaged by the influence of Greek philosophy and culture. He suggests that the church needs to recover its roots if it is ever to fulfil its destiny, and see true and sustained revival. He makes some interesting arguments, but one thing I certainly agree with him on is his passion for the church to break out more and have a real impact on our culture, right here and now. Steve makes the point well in this passage from the chapter Redoing Religion:

” The question I now ask is, if we follow such a big God why do we cram Him into such a small box? We should let Him loose, let Him roam freely, let Him act according to His awesome nature. Of course He already does, but we act as if He lived just in ancient buildings, sports halls on a Sunday hire, or in front rooms swept clean of profane literature and embarrassing relatives…God doesn’t just live in church buildings for a couple of hours every Sunday. For a start nowhere in the bible is Church ever meant to be a building. It was the Greek Church fathers who changed things, leading to an idea that any expression of Christianity is best confined to a meeting place rather than the people who meet there. Whereas Jesus tells us to go out into the world to preach His Gospel, we have ending up telling the world to come into Church, to find Jesus there. And what does the world really find when it goes there?”

This morning I am off to talk to a group of Christians meeting in a hired-community centre who want to have their own Church building..interesting.

My earlier blog about Steve’s work can be found at

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Time to leave Jerusalem

In the opening  chapter of Acts the resurrected Jesus tells his followers not to leave Jerusalem but to wait there for the promises of the father- The Holy Spirit. The disciples are excited at the prospect of the restoration of the Kingdom to Israel- they still don’t get it! Only a few verses later Christ tells them to be his witnesses on Jerusalem, all Judea, and Samaria and the ends of the earth and then he disappears! As my friend George Lings would say, the message may have reached the ends of the earth but the church has set up a number of mini-Jerusalems. How many Christians effectively reach out beyond church walls other than through blitz events like Hope and Soul in the City and specific ministries like Street Pastors?

Some would say that the church is obsessed with Jerusalem and making it look better, bigger, slicker and brighter- when the real need is to set up camp in Samaria or even venture to the ends of the earth. As a church we tend to focus on people who are like us- Churched- those comfortable to be our people. What about the de-churched on the fringes of Samaria who are at least 3 times bigger than we are and many of whom don’t like who we are? What about the non-churched where we could come into contact we a group amongst the under 45s who are 6 times greater than that age profile in our churches? There is some excellent news and stories around the Back to Church Sunday initiative for which we should praise God, but we can’t ignore the facts that around 40% of the populations have had some experience of church yet have not returned- was it really their fault. My friend George suggests that the complex DNA have the church has  dominant Anglican genes called worship and pastoral care and that evangelism and mission genes are recessive. For a national church, the Church of England, the number of people who appear to be deeply alienated from us is disturbing. It’s time to leave Jerusalem.

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Free speech

One of the risks in blogging about a whole range of things (and not censoring comments) is that from time to time some correspondents will get fixated on single issues. The purpose of this blog is to share with you my continued journey as an unfinished Christian and invite you to play your part in helping me along the way. I guess I’d hoped that my musings would appeal to others who consider themselves unfinished Christians or work-in-progress followers of Jesus. Well, I know of few of you reading this fit this description, but since I blogged about the BNP  I have had a handful of persistent correspondents who make it their business to justify particular theological positions and excercise their freedom of speech -that well-known catch all  for the right to say anything however offensive or unlated to the purpose of this blog. So, should I continue to keep comments on this blog unedited and put up with anything and everything that comes my way or do I block the people running obvious agendas? I honestly don’t know, but in the meantime I want to pray that we all need to look beyond, colour, culture and creed to the person underneath- the person that Christ died for. In Acts we read that, “God has shown me I should not call anyone impure or unclean. I recognise how true it is that God does not show partiality, but accpets people from every nation who fear him and do his will.” As ever, Nick Fawcett gets it right in Daily Prayer-

Living God, teach me that you did not just make some but all people in your likeness, and so teach me to value and respect everyone in the family of humankind. Through Jesus Christ my Lord. Amen.

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Losing our way

A few weeks ago a met a Jewish Christian called Steve Maltz and he gave me a copy of his book ‘How the church lost the way’– a fascinating argument about how the Way of the early church has been obscured by the influence of Greek philosophy which has worked its way through every facet of our Christian life, from doctrine to rituals and from practices to attitudes. Steve does a great job in taking the reader on a journey back to the roots of the Christian faith with a compelling simplicity and invites us to consider the implications of boxing in our faith to ritualistic church attendance and hymn singing. To get the full flavour of Steve’s argument you’d have to read the whole book for yourself but here’s a brief taster to wet your appetite:

” To a religious Jew everything is spiritual, everything is theological, everything is sacred. Life is not compartmentalised…the key distinction between  Greek thinking that has insinuated itself  into all parts of the Church thinking and practice…Jesus once had a spat with a Samaritan woman about acceptable ways to worship God. He spoke to here of  future time when true worshippers will worship the father in spirit and in truth, so worship is going to have to be infused in spirit and in truth. It needs to be of a spiritual nature because God is spirit, but it needs to be based on truth..The Western Church has evolved into a rigid pattern whereby the phrase we will move to a time of worship is a cue for throats to be cleared, brains emptied of the mundane and legs and arms placed on standby and praise and worship is understood as a musical genre. It puts God in a box and misrepresents him as someone who can only be worshipped in recognised spiritual ways, such a sprayer, singing and proclamation. Hebrew worship frees us up totally to worship him using every part of our created being, body and soul with our arms, legs, voice, mind and spirit.”

All I know is that these arguments will run and run as people strive for the authentic model for Christian community and worship. While we do , just let’s remember He is the God of Jew and Greek and Brit and African and American and Indian and Chinese and Australian and so on and so on until the ends of the earth and for all time.  I am sure we are getting parts of our worship and understanding wrong and we have missed out on much, but thank God for the Good Shepherd who never gives up on the strays who have lost their way and thank God that we can keep asking questions and discovering more of Him each day. Steve’s idea about everything being spiritual and there being nothing out of bounds for God is also echoed by teaching minister Rob Bell. See this brief excerpt from his film Everything is spiritual and judge for yourself:

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Frank ‘n’ Psalms

psalmI have been listening again to Psalm– a collection of 12 Revised Standard Version Psalms by Evangelist, Actor and musician Frank McGregor. I find this collection uplifting, reflective, inspiring and reassuring – thank you Frank.

Col 3:16 says:“Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teach and admonish one another in all wisdom, and sing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs with thankfulness in your hearts to God.” Frank says in the sleeve notes to the CD; ” It’s not surprising that many of our hymns are based on them (psalms) because we can all relate in some way to them- they reflect both the joy and sorrow of human experience in relation to God…thanks to God who as used all of these Psalms to speak to me in different ways, times and places. My hope is that everyone who hears these songs also hears God speak to them too.”

To listen to sample tracks and to buy Psalms see

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A glorious mystery

rublev_trinity_iconToday is Trinity Sunday when the Christian Church has a focus on how God has reveled himself as Father, Son and Holy Spirit. This is a sticking point of Christian doctrine that prevents many engaging fully with the faith- they simply can’t get their head around this glorious mystery. How can one person become three and why and where and when?  I am not a learned theologian and have not answers to this mystery that will give doubters the answer that they seek- it simply doesn’t make logical sense- but that doesn’t make it any less real does it? As Nick Fawcett writes in his prayer for Trinity Sunday in Daily Prayer:

 “It reminds us of a truth we cannot afford to forget: that God is beyond the human intellect, defying expression, greater than we can ever conceive. We cannot explain how the pieces fit together but we know that they do, for we have experienced the truth ourselves. If we imagine that we have solved the mystery and that the full wonder of God is firmly in our sights, then it is time to think again, for if we ever think that, then the truth is that we have lost sight of him altogether. Sovereign God, Father Son and Holy Spirit. teach me to live with mystery, and simply to celebrate each day my many experiences of your love. Amen.”

So God not one person but a community of persons made one through their mutual love. The mystics and theologians have speculated long and abstractly on these matters, and we continue to do so until God settles the issue. In the meantime lets draw meaning and inspiration and give thanks by using the words of  the peace for Trinity Sunday:

Peace be to you from God our heavenly Father. Peace from his Son Jesus Christ who is our peace. Peace from the Holy Spirit, the life-giver. The peace of the triune God be always with you. And we continue to give you thanks because you have revealed the glory of your eternal fellowship of love with your Son and with the Holy Spirit three persons equal in majesty, undivided in splendour, yet one God ever to be worshipped and adored.

May you discover peace, comfort and inspiration this Trinity Sunday and see more of the glorious oneness of love, mystery and hope.

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Mastering Time

by Jennifer Hoffman –

We fear time and what it can do because we equate time with death, the ultimate end. Our fear is not with time itself but with what time can do. So within everything we do, time becomes the factor we can’t control, the ultimate end that will eventually catch up with us. When we’re in a race against time, time usually wins because we see it as something we work against or that works against us. It is responsible for the deadlines we don’t meet, the things we don’t accomplish, the opportunities that pass us by. But what if time, like many other aspects of our reality, was an illusion that we could master?

What would be possible for us if we were masters of time?

To master time we must be able to view it from the perspective of it working with and for us and one of many aspects of life and the third dimension that we can control because time is just another element of our reality. Time is an aspect of doing and from this perspective we will never be in control of time because we will never be able to ‘do’ enough. In today’s 24×7 world, we seem to have too much to do and not enough time but how much of what we do is useful, aligned with our intention?

Mastery of time begins when we align time and intention, which also aligns timing and outcome.

Today’s world offers a wealth of life options and while many are possible, they are not all useful, effective or efficient uses of our energy. Time aligns with energy movement and the path of mastery asks us to consider all possibilities within the scope of what is aligned with our life purpose and highest good.

What we find is when what we do is aligned with who we are, time moves in an effortless and easy flow towards outcome. Being in the flow happens when we are fully aligned, body, mind, emotions and spirit, with our intention and then we’re in control of time.

Time is the movement of energy through density, so the more density we put into a situation, which includes meeting others’ needs, expectation or fears about the outcome, the more we expand time and its effects, which also shrinks our options.

Time is a factor if we empower it and it is irrelevant if we don’t.

Although time will occur in our life, how much it matters, what it can affect, and how long it lasts all depend on whether we have learned to master time. When we are ‘being’ ourselves, consciously intending our reality into being, focused on and in the present and fully aligned with our being and our truth, we have learned an important key to mastery and the limitations that time creates are no longer part of our reality.

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Nature’s Gateway to Higher Consciousness

by Christine Horner –
Einstein, Tesla, Emerson, Thoreau and DiVinci are just a few who have revealed that Nature was a gateway to greater understanding into the workings of the Universe. Many a writer has divulged that daily walks in Nature revealed great insights into human behavior as well. What happens when one spends time in contemplation under a canopy of conifers or in the stillness of predawn hours? It can only be described as pure magic!

So powerful is the connection to higher states of consciousness and the deeper truth of who you are, that Nature has been misunderstood, discouraged and even banned as a practice for seeking enlightenment.

Peer into the water’s edge of a lake or stream and see your reflection. All of Nature acts are a reflecting device, illuminating the qualities of the totality of Creation in parts small enough for you to discern profound wisdom and truth when you inquire into the metaphor it represents. As Creation (God), holistically is conscious, so, too are all of Creation’s “parts” sentient, as consciousness itself.

In truth, there is no separation, or parts — there is either a larger or a smaller fractal of Creation, relatively speaking, nested within itself like Russian dolls. Because all of Creation is inter-dimensionally connected energy and consciousness, you have the ability to expand or contract your awareness at will, far beyond the confines of your body, utilizing a number of techniques such as silence, prayer, chanting, consciousness-altering chemicals, Nature, etc..
In a meeting with scientists, world-renowned astrophysicist, Dr. Stephen Hawking said the late Pope John Paul II once admonished them by saying, “It’s OK to study the universe and where it began. But we should not inquire into the beginning itself because that was the moment of creation and the work of God.”
So powerful is the connection to higher states of consciousness and the deeper truth of who you are, that Nature has been misunderstood, discouraged, and even banned as a practice for seeking enlightenment. For historically, most of the time inquiry leads to discoveries that contradict established doctrine and dogma.
Demonizing the reverence of Nature (Pantheism) stems from ignorance, such as institutions attempting to eliminate it from their organizations as a potential threat. Likewise, studying science and the cosmos is an extension of inquiring into Nature.
Any individual or organization that discourages or prohibits inquiry into nature, science, or the cosmos, should immediately cause red flags to rise, for the only reason for doing so is to subvert attention away from an opaque agenda.
So why is the investigation into natural phenomena still being discouraged in this day and age? Perhaps because in the past, veneration of Nature has been linked to Paganism; the worship of Nature, through its parts, resulting in complex belief systems and a multitude of gods that had to be pleased and placated, rather than today’s singular “contemporary” God (one that still has to be pleased and placated according to some).

Let’s inquire more deeply by performing what Einstein called “thought experiments.” If you believe God is without limitation, then you would believe God is infinite. If God is infinite, then God is infinite possibility. Taking it further, God is infinite expression.

As infinite expression, God is everywhere. God being everywhere, God is everything. And this is the Divine Paradox: God is all that is seen and unseen, Creation Itself, as both form and formlessness.

Paganism is a point of view created out of separation consciousness. What was and is still misunderstood, from indigenous cultures to modern man alike, is that Nature is not being seen in its entirety, as part of the whole of Creation/God. When Nature is viewed from Unity Consciousness, it is revealed that there is no separation from God, never was and that we humans are also an expression of God, as a species in Nature, not separate from it.
This is the true symbolism of the rainbow; Creation expressed as a full living-color spectrum of levels of consciousness. Additionally, white is the inclusion of all color, while black is the exclusion of all color — the Divine Paradox reemerging — Creation being both light and dark, born out of relativity.

A great man of enlightenment himself, the reasons behind the Pope’s rebuke can only be speculated upon as an act of self-preservation, a demonstration of his own humanity lost in the illusion of separation. For the first thing Nature clearly does is negate the need for organized religion.

Nature, by self-definition, essentially means revelation. As you immerse yourself in the flora and fauna around you, becoming one with it, it is clear that your salvation was never in jeopardy, only your belief that it was was.

If every aspect of Creation is Self-Conscious, absolutely nothing is hidden. You are free to inquire into your nature and in fact are encouraged to do so. Notice the natural tendency of humans to be curious and to investigate life from a plethora of points of view, not just through scientific inquiry. To be in a state of awe and wonder of the world we live in and why we are here is Creation in awe and wonder of Itself!
If you haven’t yet experienced the magic mirror of Nature, one that extends into infinity, you are encouraged to begin by asking the basic open-ended question, “What is the deeper meaning of what I see before me?” thus expressing your willingness to know and inviting it to be revealed to you. Be prepared for it to change everything in your life as everything taught to you by others will eventually come under scrutiny by proxy, and then be seen as a limited and outdated belief system.
Become lost in the vastness of who you truly are by immersing yourself in your Oneness with Nature. Whisper in Nature’s ear and Nature will whisper back to you. Nature/Creation has given you everything as a gift. You are that gift — the Gift of Life.

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Month: January 2015

Network connectivity restored – No. 121573

Our technical team were advised by our vendors this morning to update the Firewall to the latest version of software and, as part of that process, to restart it.  This appears to have restored network connectivity and early indications are showing that there is a consistent standard of performance compared to yesterday.  However, the Firewall software update process is still running and may take some time to finish.

With respect to identifying the root cause of this incident we are continuing with our investigations.

We apologise for the disruption this has caused over the last two days.  If you do notice any further degradation of service please contact the Service Desk is the usual way.

Issues accessing online services – No. 121573

Update – Tuesday 27th Janaury 11:24

We have made initial changes to the system, the changes are being staggered and you should now have access to the Internet and eMail plus others as we progress.

This page will be updated when more information is available.

There are still ongoing issues with connectivity to the University website, the Internet, blogs, eVision My Dundee, WiFi and the Discovery portal despite implementing a series of workarounds to make these services available for as long as possible.

Our technical teams are working with our suppliers to determine what the root cause is and, in identifying this, it has been agreed to make some changes to the IT infrastructure tomorrow morning during the Scheduled Maintenance period (07:00 – 09:00  hrs).  We do not expect this work to impact user productivity more than at present.

We will update when further information becomes available.

If you require more information please contact Service Desk and quote reference No: 121573.

UoD IT staff meeting – 23rd Jan – 10am to 12pm – requests for support

On Friday 23rd January, between 10am – 12pm, UoD IT staff will be attending a department monthly meeting.

You can still log calls during this period by:

  • Sending an email to
  • Submit a Help4U Online Enquiry Form
  • Logging on to Help4U Self-Service Portal and completing the online form – you can also check the progress of any existing calls
  • Phone x88000, leaving a voicemail, and we will get back to you

In the event of an emergency, involving major disruption to a service or assistance required for teaching in learning and teaching areas, please phone 07710950859. This number will only be available during this time.

SITs/eVision essential maintenance 6-8 Jan 2015

Update: Wednesday 7 January 2015

We are pleased to announce that the  SITS 8.7.1 upgrade has been completed ahead of schedule.  This means that users can now access the SITS client with immediate effect. Further news will be posted in due course when work has been completed on eVision.

The University’s Student Management System SITS/eVision will be upgraded between Tuesday 6 January 2015 at 18:00 hrs and Thursday 8 January 2015 at 17:00 hrs. More information about this work is available on our website. This page will be updated once the work is complete.


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Ron Paul is a sheep in wolf’s clothing – a follower of The Prince of Peace (not of purple rain), in a den of thieves, or the GOP. He is a statesman among professional politicians. A man of his word against men of words, designed by professionals, to get themselves elected.

Ron Paul has a new budget plan that makes a lot of sense and is available in PDF format.

All bills from the house are supposed to be the source of all money bills. It was never intended that Congress should lose control of that and hand it over to a private, central bank where Congress, the people, must borrow endlessly for perpetual war and out-of-control Keynesianism.

More military employees support Ron Paul than all other GOP candidates combined, and more than Obama. These facts may be checked, because their campaign contributions are open.

The USA government is factually broke, by definition. We cannot continue to support crony capitalism which is just another name for a gentle form of fascism, by definition. Others have called it a corporate oligarchy, but the corruption is clear, regardless of the label. A central plan, by any other name, still smells.

Ron Paul worked very hard to shine at least a partial light on the FED and it’s 15 trillion dollar secret.

It is actually Congress’s job to earmark every spending item. That is what is known as “transparency”, and it prevents the king from spending on endless pet projects or wars of his or her liking. The House, not the FED, is supposed to deal with matters of funding and monetary policy. The FED, if not eliminated, needs to be transparent, so that all holders of 1 or more dollars and all USA taxpayers know exactly how much is being created and where it flows to in each and every case.

We know that much about our public stock holdings, do we not? When your stock splits or doubles, don’t you get your fair share?

I hate my former boss Larry Ellison, but Obama does seem nice. However, Larry and company are fair with their ORCL shares, and Obama was misleading about the wars and the war on drugs. He is a US Citizen Assassin with little or no regard for the rule of law. Science teaches us that human intuition about the real world is unreliable. He expanded the war and authorized trillions of dollars of waste and debt.

Do the banks actually own all of the Federal Reserve Notes, and that is why they can always be certain that they can simply bail themselves out, and create more with another QE and secret loans?

Ron Paul predicted the housing bubble. Timing is difficult, because we can never be sure what the Central Planners will do next. Some day, groceries, insurance, medical care costs and gold prices will go through the roof.

The Soviet system was modeled after the US system, but the Central Planners were on steroids. The US system is now in free fall, but at a slower pace.

We may soon have Millions Standing Around or MSA at the malls to mirror the Thousands Standing Around and groping your penis at LAX and elsewhere. The LAX TSA needs to get rid of their Pervert Platoon of GED grads who live to humiliate and embarrass even if can cost a consultant his job, or put him in the psychiatrist office on short-term leave – those sick people!

Herman Cain-sian economics, is just Keynesian, with a dumb plan that is sure to be changed by Congress, and his FED buddies to a 11-13-17 plan – a stupid Keynesian idea with added pipelines of wealth transfer for the corporatists to split.

Read Ron Paul’s plan and let me know what you think. It is available in PDF.

Everyone should support Ron Paul, because he truly believes in liberty, and he is a very honest man.  Please go have a look at his voting record.  Compare his record to Obama or Perry, and you will see a big difference with consistency.

There was the Obama peace candidate and then the Obama presidency.  Most people are already quite aware of this and other discrepancies between the candidate and the president.  Perry is already infamous for his ability to morph into whatever political animal that will get him elected.   Paul has a plan for peace and liberty.  Perry and Obama do not even have a plan for liberty.

If drones can run autonomously, then I would think that peace-loving humans ought to be permitted the same courtesy. Ron Paul is the only candidate who believes in, and has a plan for autonomous humans.  Isn’t it about time that we legalized liberty, and combined it with the synergy of peace and prosperity as well?

The employees of the mainstream media should get behind Ron Paul, because he supports the free market of ideas completely, and would help protect your liberty. There should be more jobs, because information is the key to successful liberty. I work in information technology, and see a great leap forward in the growth of not just data, but information. Data is useless, unless it can be converted back into useful information through all kinds of media. Not just TV, but the Internet as well. Information has value, regardless of how it is presented. People can freely compete to present the information in the best way possible.

I can imagine a day when I can just see through my glasses which media company or which consumer report-like agency approves of the company that I am about to consider walking into, in a shopping center mall. The best agencies will be the most accurate. People can make up their own mind. I would be interested in knowing which companys are carrying products that contain DNA that is genetically altered (fine), by a company that sues farmers when their DNA gets into their neighbor’s crops (not fine – pollution of neighbors crops, and a violation of their property rights, but supported by the mainstream. If anything, it should be the other way around, those dirty authoritarian-supporting lawyers and judges should be ashamed). Guess I will not be shopping there.

The cool thing is, that there are many more workers, than owners of the corporate oligarchy, and there are many useful jobs that are potentially out there, in a land of liberty, where people can freely trade ideas, goods, and services with each other.

Just bringing the troops home, will be a huge savings that peace lovers everywhere should enjoy.  The troops can spend their federal reserve notes here, and we can finally get a taste of that peace dividend that was promised to us after the cold war, but of course never delivered.  This will be the higest priority of the presedent, if we can get Ron Paul elected in 2012.


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Arches and Canyonlands: The literal end of the road ~

The north section of Arches National Park, which has the most trails, was closed for road repairs and construction when we visited, and another popular section was so crowded that no parking spots were available. My companion and I found ourselves both suffering from a world-too-much-with-us malaise. (See here my post A plea for public lands, or better yet, read Desert Solitaire by the very prescient Edward Abbey.) We ended up just getting out at a couple of overlooks and then walking a very short trail to Sand Dune Arch. That arch isn’t pictured here: I left my camera in the car because of the strong, gusty wind; sand grains stung the skin and tourists without sunglasses were shielding their eyes. Sand Dune Arch is sandwiched between tall fins of rock that form a little slot canyon, the bottom of which is piled deep with sand of a uniformly red color (due to its iron content). Burrowing my hand into it, I discovered that it was the finest-grained sand I’ve ever felt, almost velvety, perhaps because it is eroded from rock only rather than being a mixture of rock and marine shell.

So the only arch in my photographs was taken, ironically, at Canyonlands. At the north end of this park, a paved road travels south along a skinny mesa appropriately called Island in the Sky. The mesa is a long finger pointing down into the heart of the labyrinthine canyon systems that make up the bulk of the park, hundreds of feet below and extending for miles east, south, and west. Mesa Arch, which is pictured here, stands on the eastern edge of Island in the Sky midway between the visitors center and the end of the road, Grand View Point. By the time we got there, the sun was at the horizon.

Capitol Reef ~

In tiling these photos, WordPress has made the big small and the small big. It’s fitting. This landscape is so vast that gigantic land formations, even mountains, are small on the horizon when seen from distances of 20, 50, 100 miles. And only when you take the time to pay attention close at hand do you realize how many plant species are blooming all around you, dwarfed by the rock.

A plea for public lands ~

My blog is sagging under the weight of so much rock. For today, I’m posting just one Utah photograph, taken at Capitol Reef National Park. (It’s an iPhone panorama—I hadn’t experimented with this feature until now.) Aside from the highway that cuts across the north end of Capitol Reef, the park has only one paved road, which travels south just a few miles. At its terminus (shown here), a dirt road will take you about two miles east, through a narrow canyon called Capitol Gorge.

That road also leads me to a political note. The first time I visited Capitol Reef was in 1991. That visit was in May, before the full-fledged summer tourist season. My then-husband and I had the place to ourselves. We drove on a dirt road—probably Capitol Gorge Road—that was so rough I worried our little compact car would be shaken to pieces or get hung up on a rock and we’d be stranded for hours or days. Our vehicle was the only one on that curvy road, and we felt isolated indeed winding among the towering cliffs bordered by trees. It was beautiful, and it felt very remote.

This time around, at the same time in May, Capitol Reef was jammed with cars. The dirt road, it seemed, had been improved—still a little rough, but nothing like what I remembered; still beautiful, but heavily traveled.

The Trump Administration wants to declassify a number of national monuments, many of them long-established ones and a number of them in southern Utah, to open them to oil and gas drilling. This, I believe, would be a terrible decision. Reducing CO2 emissions demands that fossil fuels stay in the ground, and blighting this spectacular landscape with more industrial operations would desecrate it. (To many Native Americans, such as the Paiute, it is indeed sacred land.) Oil and gas drilling are not a sustainable activity. Tourism and recreation, in contrast, are sustainable sources of revenue for the citizens of Utah if properly managed (this assumes that one is most concerned about the people’s livelihood and not the profits of Big Energy).

But therein lies a paradox: Tourism on the public lands of southern Utah has become so popular that it must be controlled. Already Zion National Park runs on a shuttle system, as does part of Bryce Canyon National Park. Arches National Park, a section of which was closed this past May, badly needs to move to a shuttle system as well; it was overrun with cars in every parking lot and people thronged all the trails we visited.

I recently re-read the iconic book about southern Utah, Desert Solitaire, by Edward Abbey. Even back in the late 1950s, Abbey, who worked for a couple of seasons as a park ranger at Arches, deplored the development of “industrial tourism,” wherein people experience Utah’s great parks and monuments only by car, and the government builds more and more paved roads to accommodate them. Glad as I was to see these places again, I felt sorry to be limited to industrial tourism myself, physically unable to do much hiking and contributing to the congestion.

Abbey predicted that the road-building he saw happening in the 1960s would continue, and it has…up to a point. Happily, though, much of southern Utah remains unpaved and relatively unspoiled, especially the vast wilderness of Grand Staircase–Escalante—a long-established national monument that the Trump Administration wants to allow Big Energy to exploit. The sheer ruggedness of this wilderness of rock, sand, canyons (combined with a shamefully reduced budget for the National Park Service) has protected much of the land and left it alone for hikers, boaters, climbers, birders, and other nature lovers. Local tour and adventure companies do a big business here, one that is sustainable provided that the land is left as it is.

The crowds at Zion, Bryce, and Arches still experience beauty. But to experience solitude in Canyon Country, as it’s called, you must travel on dirt roads to the vast bottom of Canyonlands or the south end of Capitol Reef and then get out on foot, for even the strenuous trails at the better-known parks are popular. Or you must turn to the national monuments, such as Grand Canyon–Escalante, where no paved roads penetrate. The monuments, more than the parks, offer the experience of spell-binding wilderness.

Abbey speaks eloquently of people’s need for wild places. Even city people, he says, benefit by knowing that such places exist, untrammeled and remote, though they may never visit those places.

He was right. Abbey often expressed himself harshly, but Canyon Country itself is harsh. To my knowledge no writer has described its character so beautifully and so powerfully. Read Desert Solitaire. Then, if you’re of like mind, contact your state and national legislators to let them know you’re in Abbey’s camp—perhaps quite literally, if you’re an intrepid soul.

Bryce Canyon ~

It isn’t easy to take a truly bad picture of Bryce Canyon, but I managed a great many mediocre ones. These are the best of the lot. At Bryce we reached our highest elevation in Utah; we wouldn’t be at 9,000 feet again until the return trip through Colorado.

Zion National Park ~

I first saw Zion Canyon as a child, and it remains the most beautiful place I’ve ever been. When my companion and I arrived in early May, though, the weather was rainy and foggy, with clouds obscuring all but the very bottom of the canyon. It was still beautiful, with many flowers blooming, the just-leafed-out trees along the Virgin River a tender, bright green, and the red rock of the canyon walls backdropping everything.

The next morning we took the shuttle up the canyon (due to its popularity, this park has been forced to limit vehicles on the canyon drive for all but the winter months).  As the day went by the clouds gradually lifted, but the sky remained mostly gray. We walked the Riverside Walk, a paved trail along the Virgin River, down to the The Narrows, where the river becomes the “trail” because the canyon walls are only about 20 feet apart. The Narrows was off-limits this day due to the high water; hikers sometimes die in this wilderness area because of flash flooding and swift currents. Toward sunset we hiked the Canyon Overlook Trail at Zion’s southeast corner. Without my companion’s help up and down the steep, rocky path, which was sandy, damp, and slick, I could never have made this hike. The view rewards the effort.

Along the Sevier River ~

Turning to tourist shots now: On our first full day in Utah, we stopped for a picnic lunch north of Marysdale, Utah, on U.S. 89, which runs along the Sevier River at this point. We were on our way south to Zion National Park. Over the next four days we would do brief (very brief) tours of the five national parks in southern Utah. They were thronged with other tourists, but we had this picnic spot to ourselves, and it was sweet listening to the little river rush by.

Salt Valley ~

The colors in the soil make this landscape view at Arches National Park into an abstract. I turned a rectangular shot into a square in order to crop out two far-off bits of roadway, which were barely noticeable but which I thought detracted from the abstract effect. I didn’t add any saturation, but I did oversharpen this a little to enhance the “dots,” which are tiny shrubs.


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Trends: Bánh Mì Everything (and a Breakfast Sandwich)

Banh Mi BreakfastBánh mì is Vietnamese for bread, and the word has also come to define THE Vietnamese sandwich, which is a French influenced masterpiece of pâté, some kind of sliced pork product, mayonnaise, and pickled vegetables inside a baguette. Then someone figured out that the bánh mì formula of bread + protein + pickled things can be translated into many, many delicious dishes. I’ve come across burgers, tacos, alternate sandwiches, pizza, and breakfast sandwich recipes with a bánh mì spin, but the one that I crave with the most regularity is the breakfast sandwich. The bright flavor combination of spicy, fatty, and vinegary is addicting and easy enough to make a part of a regular breakfast rotation. Don’t be turned off by the ingredient list, they come together lickety-split (and disappear even faster).

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The First Mess –  Kimberley’s banh mi with portobellos + pickled vegetables (vegan)

Food 52 – Banh Burgers

Heather Christo – Banh Mi Tacos with Spicy Sriracha Honey Sauce

Dula Notes – Pork Banh Mi Pizza

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Bánh Mì Breakfast Sandwiches

Makes two, easily scaled. This does make enough pickles and mayo for 4-6 sandwiches, because I usually make the pickles and then have these sandwiches for breakfast a few days in a row since I have more English muffins and bacon as well (unless you have a source to only buy these items in twos). If you only want two servings worth of pickles and mayo, then adjust accordingly. For a vegetarian version some mushrooms would be a nice substitute for the bacon.

(adapted from Food 52)

  • 1 carrot, scrubbed and thinly sliced into coins
  • 1/2 a cucumber, quartered lengthwise and thinly sliced
  • 1/4 cup rice vinegar
  • 1/4 cup water
  • 1 tablespoon sugar
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • 1 tablespoon mayonnaise
  • 1 tablespoon Sriracha (or other hot sauce)
  • 2 wheat English muffins
  • 2 slices bacon
  • 2 eggs
  • 1 scallion, thinly sliced
  • 1/8 of a cup cilantro leaves (a few sprigs)

Combine the rice vinegar, water, salt, and sugar in a jar. Microwave on high for 1 minute, or until the sugar and salt dissolve. Add the carrot and cucumber, and refrigerate for at least 30 minutes (can be done the night before).  Mix the mayonnaise and  hot sauce and stir until combined. Cook both slices of bacon on medium heat until crisp and remove from pan. Toast the English muffins.  Drain all but a thin layer of the bacon fat (save it for other sauteing activities!) and cook eggs to your preferred doneness (I like over easy). Build sandwiches with a big smear of hot mayo, sliced scallions, cilantro, a slice of bacon, pickles, and an egg. NOM.

Further Reading (updated 12/1/2014): Egg and Turkey Banh Mi

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NZ election fallout – I’m not off to Australia

Social media is a buzz with people whingeing that last night’s election result has screwed the country for another 3 years. That’s fine, this is politics and everyone is entitled to their opinion. However, their reasoning seems rather strange.

Many people, jokingly or not, have said they are off to Aussie. I find this rather amusing. The reason I assume people would contemplate going to live in Australia is because economic conditions over there are much better. But then do they think a Labour-led government would do a better job improving our economy than a National one??

People voted National in droves last night, which seems to be a vote of confidence for a party that can solve economic problems. More significantly, it looks to be a vote of no confidence levelled at Labour in the economic department.

What people fail to realise is that the welfare state in New Zealand is not as “uncaring” as many begrudged Labour voters seem to think. A trip to Australia would confirm that fairly quickly. National will not ignore social problems because it is not the “Boogeyman” from the political right.

The fact is that the Australian economy is stronger than ours in New Zealand. However, a key reason why is that they have a mining industry – the very thing most left leaning supporters have opposed here in New Zealand.

If we are to have thriving social programmes, education and healthcare, more jobs, then we can’t do it without moola. None of things are going to come free.

If we want a pie that is big enough to fund the kind of social programmes that Labour and the left want it is going to require looking after the pie, expanding it and not giving so much of it away in loan and interest repayments.

National are not a party so far to the right that they resemble the US Republican party. If they were like the Republican party then I would agree that National are an uncaring party who disenfranchise the “99%”.

The claim that National will benefit only the “super-rich” is also without merit. The rich in this country, a demographic never really defined by those who demonise them, are not a majority.

Most working New Zealanders and small business owners (read: employers/job creators) realise the economic realities we live in. While we could do much more in the areas of welfare, health and education, we will need a sound economy to do anything worthwhile. This is why Labour governments do good work during our economic “up” years.

On that note, I think the Greens doing so well is a good thing. They will bring some valuable perspectives to the table, particularly around energy and the issues surrounding pollution.

It is true that our primary industries are valuable money spinners for the country but it seems to be unsustainable long-term to allow farmers a free pass in the water pollution area. Greenhouse gas policy will continue to be a hot topic. An alternative to straight market-first answers is needed on such topics.

At the end of the day politics is about values, but as a skeptic, I hope to see policies (an opposition to policies) grounded in the best data and sound logic.

Heading to Australia is great, but I wouldn’t be doing so on the basis that our country is screwed while Australia is some golden land of paradise. If you want a better standard of living here, it seems fixing the economy and balancing the books is a top priority. National is who the people chose to do this and their logic is sound given the opposition.

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