Night at the Opera - Melbourne

Hear great music from such favorites as The Magic Flute, Carmen, Rigoletto, Turandot, Alcina, Dido and Aeneas, Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg, Lohengrin, ll Travatore. Nabucco, and more! Box Hill Chorale and six outstanding young soloists Conducted by Andrew Wailes Be thrilled by great operatic highlights including: Nessun Dorma from Puccini's Turandot Va Pensiero (The Hebrew Slaves Chorus) from Verdi's Nabucco Dido's Lament and final chorus from Purcell's Dido and Aeneas La Donna e mobile from Verdi's Rigoletto Voyagers' Chorus from Mozart's Idomeneo Habanera from Bizet's Carmen Bridal Chorus from Wagner's Lohengrin Ein Madchen oder Weibchen from Mozart's The Magic Flute Procession and Chorale from Wagner's Die Meistersinger Che gelida manina from Puccini's La Boheme Chorus of the Enchanted Islanders from Handel's Alcina Non piu Andrai from Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro Box Hill Chorale and outstanding young soloists: Lauren Oldham (soprano), Rose Nolan (mezzo soprano) Brendon Wickham* (tenor), Samuel Dundas* (baritone) Amander Hodder & Evan Cresswell (pianoforte) Conducted by Andrew Wailes *courtesy Victorian Opera SATURDAY 22 JULY, 2006 at 8pm MLC MUSIC ACADEMY AUDITORIUM (207 Barkers Rd, Kew) more information : info @ boxhillchorale. org. au This may well be a "sell-out prior" to concert!

1961 Boomerang Trip to Europe - working holiday London

Leaving Port Melbourne on the "Orion" SS with family farewelling me. [Sorry about the fourty year old film quality] This trip took three weeks to get to England with good stopovers. Also on board lots of good food, a swimming pool and parties every night. Stopped a day in Bombay and Calcutta, and Egypt where the ship went up the Suez Canal while we went by land to Cairo and saw the Sphinx and Pyramids of Gisa and rode the horrible camels who were whipped to a gallop so that the handler would get money from terrified tourists who wanted them to a walk but not me - loved the speed, only at a run. London Flat - a small attic in Knightsbridge. Worked at Guys where the Queen came to open new surgical building. Tossa de Mar village with roman fort -See a good photo of Tossa beach and Fort here. I ran out of money for the 3rd time after the South of France and could not dare ask mum for more money - so eating very little for 6 weeks until the car was sold in London then 2 weeks skiing Kitzbuhel, Austria tried to eat up big - good food &good restaurants there. But still Dad greeted me back in Melbourne with " you like a skeleton". "Orion"S.S.- UK L-R:Michael, Mum, me, Dad, Wendy. Ceylon - Mt Lavinia - day trip - English lunch and snake charmer. NAPLES for the day- saw Pompeii too. Close to Vesuvius from a church bell tower in new Italian jumper. Wearing Pringle twinset from Gibralta - in Knightsbridge Train line up the Jungfrau Liechtenstein Dolomites Helsinborg farm Etruscan Farm near Florence A Field in Ireland Harlech Castle Wales Tossa de Mar, Costa de Sol, Spain. Spanish slides were copies. Photos above were slides Kodak processed. Tossa Campground Autumn - free stayed weeks here Kitzbuhel, me very thin 7 qtr st, very fit learnt the hard way - bruises huge as there was a lot of ice.