I'm about to head off on yet another RingTrek, this one a jaunt up to Toronto for the third round of the Canadian Opera Company's first-ever production of the tetralogy, inaugurating their new home. So watch this space! Hopefully there will be more, here, in the week to come.

Updates on issues left dangling at the end of my last great WagnerQuest:

The screenplay to "Monster God" is coming along; we're past the "Morning Confession" letter and about to ship out to Venice. It's already way too long, as should be expected with this particular composer.

My young nephew got a gift from me in the mail the other day, a two-cd kid-friendly version of the Ring, along with a set of P. Craig Russell's cartoons for his very own. According to his dad, it went over well; he holed himself up in his bedroom for three hours, listening to the discs and studying the pictures, and then, when they were listening to it in the car, didn't want to get out because that would interrupt the story. I believe his parents have now taken out a hit on me...time to leave the country!

And of course Seattle Opera's first ever "International Wagner Competition" was a great hit with the public, and we plan to do it again in a few years. But there'll be more Wagner before then!