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2018: Year in Review (going out)
copied and pasted from last year's apart from the numbers / faves
A quick review of my cultural outings in 2018. Everything is reviewed! (Sometimes rather cursorily.) Check out my monthlyculture tag.
Bracketed figures show range over the last 15 years [see year-in-summary tag for my Cultural History since 2004].
Film: 15 (4-20). Best three = Infinity War, Bohemian Rhapsody, The Shape of Water.
Theatre: 26 (1-26). Best three = Amadeus, Bacchantes, Midsummer
Concerts (classical): 7 (2-22). Best three = Brahms Piano Concerto #1; Voices New Zealand; Rachmaninoff Vespers
Opera: 10 (0-10). Best three = Cenerentola, Maria Stuarda, Violetta
Gigs: 9 (0-9) Best three = Breeders, Psychedelic Furs, Decemberists
Books: 85. Separate post coming eventually: reviews here (ongoing: am behind on reviewing).
Also in 2018: Ozymandias died, arrival of Marlowe; visited Czech Republic, France, Spain; two conventions.
A quick review of my cultural outings in 2018. Everything is reviewed! (Sometimes rather cursorily.) Check out my monthlyculture tag.
Bracketed figures show range over the last 15 years [see year-in-summary tag for my Cultural History since 2004].
Film: 15 (4-20). Best three = Infinity War, Bohemian Rhapsody, The Shape of Water.
Theatre: 26 (1-26). Best three = Amadeus, Bacchantes, Midsummer
Concerts (classical): 7 (2-22). Best three = Brahms Piano Concerto #1; Voices New Zealand; Rachmaninoff Vespers
Opera: 10 (0-10). Best three = Cenerentola, Maria Stuarda, Violetta
Gigs: 9 (0-9) Best three = Breeders, Psychedelic Furs, Decemberists
Books: 85. Separate post coming eventually: reviews here (ongoing: am behind on reviewing).
Also in 2018: Ozymandias died, arrival of Marlowe; visited Czech Republic, France, Spain; two conventions.