2007 in review: Ticketses

[tamaranth]

I've denuded the pinboard and put last year's tickets away safely. And what did I do last year, in terms of cultural events attended?

Literary: 4
- Margaret Atwood, Stephen Page, Andrew O'Hagan on 'the future of the book', QEH, 17th April
- Simon Armitage and Robert Macfarlane on 'Sir Gawain and the Green Knight', Brighton Festival, 5th May
- Barbara Kingsolver, London Literature Festival, 4th July
- Ali Smith and Salley Vickers on Myth, Purcell Room, 3rd December

Theatre: 3
- 'The Soldier's Fortune', Young Vic, 27th February
- 'Tom Crean: Antarctic Explorer' at the Brighton Festival, 12th May
- 'Holding Fire', the Globe, 1st September

Film: 7 (9 visits)
- Casino Royale, 2nd January
- Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End, 24th May and 8th June and 23rd June
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, 17th July
- Beowulf, 8th December
- Stardust, 5th December
- St Trinians, 22nd December
- The Golden Compass, 26th December

Opera: 4
- Agrippina, ENO, 10th February
- Dido and Aeneas, Brighton Festival, 16th May
- The Magic Flute, Brighton Festival, 19th May
- L'Elisir d'Amore, Woking (Glyndebourne Touring), 30th October

Classical: 9
- ?Saint-Saens: Brighton Phil, Brighton Dome, 11th February
- Rossini / Mendelssohn / Dvorak, Philharmonia, RFH, 17th February
- ???, Philharmonia, RFH, 28th June
- Beethoven Choral Symphony, Philharmonia, RFH, 25th September
- Grieg / Holst, Philharmonia, RFH, 21st October
- Prokofiev / Tchaikovsky / Rachmaninoff, Philharmonia, RFH, 15th November
- Khachaturian / Orff Carmina Burana, Philharmonia, RFH, 20th November
- Borodin / Rachmaninoff / Dvorak, Philharmonia, RFH, 29th November
- Priesner, 'Silence Night and Dreams', Barbican 2nd December

Gigs: 0. Must do better!

Also: Clarke Awards; miscellaneous historical sites in Shropshire; Seaford Museum (hoovers!); various beach trips; The First Emperor (terracotta warriors) at BM on Christmas Eve

Comments

[swisstone.livejournal.com]

???, Philharmonia, RFH, 28th June

Asyla by Thomas Adès, Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 3 in C minor and Brahms' Symphony No. 2 in D, apparently (http://www.musicalcriticism.com/concerts/philharmonia-brendel.htm).

[p0wdermonkey.livejournal.com]

Oi! Wot about Ye Whipple Museum of Science Crappe? Eh? Eh?
I knew we should've taken those clocking-in slips with us when we left!

[tamaranth.livejournal.com]

good point! See, this is why I keep all those tickets: zero chance of recalling anything without a memento (especially given the state I was in yesterday, e.g. barely conscious)

[tamaranth.livejournal.com]

ah yes: I think that may have been the one I left halfway through, because it wasn't working for me ...