Denis and I went up this weekend to see QSOC's production of Poulenc's Les Dialogues de Carmelites. An opera set during the French Revolution looking at an order of nuns who get beheaded for their faith. The production itself was of exceptional quality and it's nice to know that something I poured so much of myself into last year music directing Donizetti's L'Elisir D'Amore hasn't suffered. Much dedication on the part of this years crew and cast has resulted in QSOC continuing on at the high quality it has set in the last 3 years.
Of course, an added bonus of going to see the opera was the ability to visit the old haunts and to hit up a good old fashioned CAST PARTY. Follows is a break down of the 3 days:
Friday: Arrived at Katrina's around 8:30ish and enjoyed a glass of wine and some fun chat before heading to the QP to meet up with friends at my favourite bar. Hung out at the QP till about 1am and then went to Gusto's to meet up with some of the cast and production team of the opera. Got kinda drunk and fell asleep around 4am
Saturday: Got up late, went for lunch with Laura, from the cruises, went to the QSOC Wine and Cheese, dinner with Colleen and Kat, followed by the opera, followed by the cast party. Got ridiculously drunk and partied with all my old friends and new faces till around 7am, passed out at Kat's shortly after arriving back.
Sunday: Got up late, packed up, drove back to London while exhausted and suffering from the worst hangover I have ever had.
The cast party was just a reminder of the ties and bonds you create by the things you do while you're at school. Despite graduation, knowing 3/4 of the people at the cast party resulted in me feeling very welcome. It's nice to belong somewhere and it's great to know you haven't been forgotten. It's also great to recapture the wild abandon of being an undergrad and getting ridiculously smashed, ridiculously fast regardless of consequences. That bottle of wine disapeared in 15 minutes...
Thanks to all the people who made the weekend such a great experience and I look forward to more drunken recaptures of Queen's in the near future. Some Pictures follow....
The Illegal Wine and Cheese at Grant Hall:
Denis, Trish and Duffy wasted at the Cast Party:
Alanna and I drunk at QP:
Selena and I chugging JD at the Cast Party:
Kevin Drunk:
3 comments:
So basically, you spent the entire weekend drunk off your ass?
Yes...nothing has changed.
"Hey baby, I hear the blues a-callin',
Tossed salad and scrambled eggs"
Wait, wrong theme song...
"You wanna go where people know,
people are all the same,
You wanna go where everybody knows
your name."
Opera! Cast Party! Aww I wish I'd been there too... there's nowhere like a QSOC cast party to have an incident with the peach schnapps. Glad to hear you had a great time, and that some things don't change!
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