Grape picking is over. Olive picking is beginning.
It is raining quite a lot sometimes.
I am off to the City for some live music: Rossini's Otello and Rolando Villazon's recital, both at the TCE. I do not know what to think of his newest Cd Mexico, but I feel like meeting him on his own ground, with a band of chamber musicians he carefully chose: The Bolivar Soloists. That choice shows he does not follow the tradition of the Mariachi and yet keep in touch with tradition with the choice of melodies like Cucaracha'? 'Classical' Mexican tendancy in folkmusic? I guess I will be under his natural charm, because as it is, he is a very charming person and knows how to conquer an audience in a simple gesture. He has the charisma of the great mimes, a look, a move, and that's it!
The sunny side of his voice will be at his best in these Mexican songs mostly about the torments of lost love! Well, if it is an exercise of cross-over, at least it will be done with elegance!
Rossini's Otello will be most enjoyable, on the paper the cast looks brilliant and that is why I make the journey, and for sure I will get the sun from
Mexico...
I met this caballero on sunday morning while I was busy looking for "sanguins", he was wearing a kind of sombrero or is it my imagination ?
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