Saturday 12th February 2022<\/p>\n
Messages kept coming from the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, begging me to go to Theodora\u00a0<\/em>by Handel. I thought: it will be utter, ghastly drear, like that other one with the prep school boys on bicycles where there’s only one good number (Lascia ch’io pianga<\/em>). Only worse, because it’s a tale of Christian martyrs. Theodora isn’t even the Empress Theodora. But you’ve got to go to something. Who’d have thought an opera visit would be so dangerous – which is how it should be, perhaps. So I booked and booked Robert Nevil to accompany. Then Royston King comes in \u00a0– also with Theodora<\/em> – and I can’t resist, just to be in the House and with Royston King, of course. So now my February is Theodora<\/em> twice over. It lasts for 4 hours. 6.30 start. Maybe even 6.<\/p>\n To top all the Theodora<\/em> suffering, Robert Nevil’s getting flaky about Theodora<\/em> – his attendance at it, I mean.<\/p>\n Maybe it would have been better never to have started on this Theodora<\/em> journey. What will become of me?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Saturday 12th February 2022 Messages kept coming from the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, begging me to go to Theodora\u00a0by Handel. I thought: it will be utter, ghastly drear, like that other one with the prep school boys on bicycles where there’s only one good number (Lascia ch’io pianga). Only worse, because it’s a tale […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adrain-edge"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poorlittlerichgays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/poorlittlerichgays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/poorlittlerichgays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poorlittlerichgays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poorlittlerichgays.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10539"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/poorlittlerichgays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10540,"href":"https:\/\/poorlittlerichgays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10539\/revisions\/10540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poorlittlerichgays.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poorlittlerichgays.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poorlittlerichgays.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}