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Power Grab: Post-mortem
In this, my 6th Ludum Dare, I had yet another fairly unique experience, encountering both new and old challenges and successes:
(Repeatable) Stuff That Went Well
- My code was organized. In the past, I've written all the code for the game into the main function. This made it difficult to have more than one level and made it painful to add, for instance, a starting screen. In general, it let me make more content than usual.
- I got feedback from people (well, one person), then implemented it. I did this early, leaving me time to do a good job implementing it and still leaving me a whole day for assets. The comment really helped me though, giving me an idea of what would make my game fun.
- I left a lot of time to make assets after finishing the game. I spent the second day solely on assets.
- Based on my own playing of the game, I refined the balancing of the game to draw more attention to the special mechanic I'd added to the game.
- I chose an easily attainable goal and then built on it. I had somewhat of an engine done within the first hour or two. From there, I was able to add more stuff and polish.
- Certain bits of polish were really helpful to the game. For instance, the sword in my game was pretty sweet.
- I stayed motivated. In the middle of this competition, I kind of hated my game, or at least, I didn't put much faith into it and didn't really know what to do to fix it. However, I pushed on, doing what I did know how to do (assets) and then revisiting the gameplay later and finding that it was not really as bad as I'd thought and that I did have solutions for it.
(Avoidable) Stuff That Went Poorly
- My code was spread out. There was no single place I could do all the balancing from, so it was a huge pain to do so. Also, I made too many tabs on Processing, so I could only see the names of 3 or 4 at a time, which made it hard to find any specific class' definition.
- I didn't put much thought into what sort of mood I wanted. Resultantly, I didn't exactly create any cohesive mood.
- My art still wasn't terribly good. I think I could have used more animation to make the top-down thing more convincing, but I don't know. I wish I were better with this sort of thing.
- The controls may not have been the best choice.
- I don't often play games based on action or on being quick and not so much on decisions. I therefore found it difficult to capture that sort of gameplay well.
- The game concept isn't wholly original. It feel more like a variation on some sort of shooter game – the majority of the game (the shooter part) has been done before. Only a small aspect (the part about summoning enemies by taking stuff) is really new. Then again, people keep saying they like the idea, so… maybe it's a good concept.
- I did not proofread the title page. It has a lot of typos. Like the good player of a game that I am, I never read anything in my game and just clicked on stuff.
Also, if you are one of the >1000 people who haven't tried my game, you can click here. (P.S. I love comments on my game – it's one of the best parts of the dare for me)
Turns out I'm not capable of writing any sort of "light" or "happy" music. This doesn't quite fit with the rest of my things. Or maybe it's more of a thing of my sound effects and graphics being too light for my game. In any case, my music and other assets kind of disagree in mood. Oops…
Home Stretch!
Well, aside from adding some music (I already have sound effects though), and some particle effects that I want to add, but aren't really imperative and a few other minutia, my game is basically done. I think it's more fun than I thought last night – the graphics and stuff make a difference, I guess and somewhere in all the balancing I did, I guess I struck a balance, since now my idea of "You should decide between taking more artifacts and being more powerful now, and being safer in two rounds". Here's some pictures:
End of the Day, In My Typical Conundrum
Well, I have something which I could very well submit right now and I think players would "get" it enough to play it and maybe enjoy it, so that's good. It's always a relief to get to this stage. All in all, it'll be another Ludum Dare game, but unfortunately, I think I've already missed my mark a little on this one – it's not nearly as original as I usually aim to be, but maybe that's because the original part of the game mechanic needs careful balancing that I just don't have time for. That's a little discouraging, but it'd take a whole lot more than that to stop me from finishing.
However, I still think the gameplay needs work. If anyone feels like playing my game, I'd love any comment you have. You can find the latest builds here.
Also, perhaps more pressingly, I don't have many assets. I *really* don't know how to draw characters from a top down perspective. They're supposed to be people, but right now they kind of look like spaceships or something – maybe zombies. They're not very… specific, I guess. I've sort of resigned to the standpoint of that as long as I'm consistent, it's good enough, although really, that's not where I want to be. They're better than nothing and I think I can make some particles and stuff, which might help. (I think I organized my code really well this time, and it's payed off nicely).
Still, I have only tomorrow (and not even all of that because people insist on having birthdays every single year) to make the remaining assets and put them in and to tweak gameplay and do whatever needs to be done. I'm sure that's sufficient, and I think my assets might turn out fairly well this time around, given that I have a significant number of graphics – certainly, I can't do worse on graphics than last time. Anyways, I'm going to go sleep.
Slooooow Down A Little
So, I think I kind of know where to go next with my game. I have a few things to change:
- Have fewer, but stronger enemies.
- Make the enemies slower.
- Add drops from enemies. Which makes sense 'cause you're supposed to be stealing your stuff from them.
- Maybe add some variety to the levels somehow, like a landscape-ish.
Hopefully I get all that done in the next two or three hours (or learn to sleep-code. Anyone got a tutorial for that?)
Something *Playable*
Well, it's not quite what I wanted (I'm not sure if that's because my idea doesn't work of because I balanced it badly), but I do now have something playable. To be specific, playable by anyone reading this if they click here. I'm not really sure how to proceed in terms of gameplay, because I think it needs more, but, usually, when I get stuck like this, I just make assets until I get unstuck, so I'm gonna do that.
This has proven to not be the hardest project, which is great. Right now, I have a pretty nice system into which I can add basically any sort of weapon, enemy, or artifact I want to. The game is mostly tied together too, so I should be able to get down to making some form of content soon and see if my game actually is fun. Hurray! Also pro-tip: Learn to use dot-product well. They will save you an infinite* amount of time.
I'd post screenshots, but I want to get back to developing. Just picture a white circle in the middle of a bunch of red circles. You're the white circle and your enemies are the red circle.
(*Results may vary)
Awake and Ready
I haven't started programming yet and overslept a little, but in any case, I have an idea I think will work: you play as a little hero dude who moves around and shoots or stabs things. Between each level, you get to choose upgrades from a pool of "artifacts" gathered in battle. The things you shoot and stab are spawned in future levels when you choose to use an artifact. In this way, you are the villain, since your choices cause enemies to spawn.
The Obligatory Idea Post (Contains 50% Pure Idea-Paste!)
Ideas I've had so far!
- Something to do with suffering consequences from your actions. Specifically, something where the ONLY way to do anything is to do something currently which will incur some consequence later. So, the past you is your enemy. This could be sort of like an arcade game with some character who, to be upgraded, agrees to be attacked by N enemies in one minute. Then, to survive, one must advance fast enough to handle the enemies, but not so fast as to spawn a deadly wave of enemies.
- Some sort of traditional game, except you play as the enemy instead. I'm pretty sure this idea has already been had by, say, everyone else, so I'm not going to do it.
- A sort of "puzzle" where there are mirrors and other objects that make copies of you, reflected and perhaps in a location with some differences. For instance, mirror you might be next to a box of TNT (conveniently), but you might not be, so if you punch it, "KAPLOW!" goes mirror you.
- A game where one has to fight against a lot of "good" people who think you're the villain in order to… to do something.
I like the first one the most because it is totally within the scope of a Ludum Dare and uses the theme in gameplay. Maybe I could play with the idea of you being a villain more than just to yourself – maybe you're in a position of power over others or something. E.g. you have to guard them, but you're a really crappy guard who also spawned the monsters. I shall get down to business tomorrow after the magic of sleep (or, a variant of sleep I like, waiting in bed, thinking about stuff) has made my mind clearer and chewed over this idea.
A Ludum Dare Just in Time!
I haven't had much luck developing recently, somewhat due to interruptions from homework/not being very familiar with Java (C++ is my thing, you know?)/sleeping. But thankfully, to that there's a cure and it's called the Ludum Dare! Trust me, I've tried it 5 times before, and it works unbelievably well. Although, on the flip side of that, it's unlikely I'll get any work done on my other game, which is an adaptation of the this game I made a few months ago for Ludum Dare 23.
In any case, this time around, I'm hoping to make a game which is awesome or weird or creative or (adjective other than "average" or "normal"). To do this, I intend to use Processing, GIMP, Garage Band, cfxr, and whatever else proves useful. Providing that my house doesn't/hasn't already run out of food, this is going to be fun!
Postmortem: Planetary Overseer
Well, it seems like a good time for a postmortem, having gotten a little feedback.
What Went Well
- Originality, theme-connection. The product I made this time is fairly unique from ones I've made previously: this game is fully based on the theme and is very original. I'm proud of this and I think it results from a pretty simple rule I try to follow and think that, this time around, I achieved: The game must relate to the theme even before any assets are made.
- Respect for Evolution's Elegance. This is a bit of an odd thing to have come out of a game jam, but I have a new respect for how awesome evolution is. My code has nothing in it that says a whole species should be able to gain new, positive traits if they are introduced via mutation, but that happens. It was really rewarding to, after a few hours of work, be able to see a beloved theory in action.
- More confidence. I had only one day for this dare, but it turned out to be one of my favorite experiences with the Ludum Dare. Also, what I made is genuinely something from my own imagination, not a copy of anything else. Really, that's why I love this competition: I get to have an idea then realize it.
What Didn't
- Graphics. I cannot draw fish. At least, in this amount of time, I can't. I probably should learn something more about making graphics some day, but it's not really what I'm passionate about. In general, at the end, I felt I'd done something cool, but didn't really want to polish, therefore, I didn't polish.
- Goal of Gameplay. I think that what I have is a neat toy. You can play around with it and try things out, but the goal isn't very strong – making the most mutations doesn't really give the depth of gameplay I wanted and was really just a thing of "I don't know what to do. I don't have time to figure it out." I still don't know an appropriate goal.
- Focus. I wasn't at all focused this time around. I think this was really mostly a thing of circumstance though; I wasn't able to start until about the midpoint of the competition, and even then, I'd been away from home for a while, so there were other things I wanted to do (and then I did them). I felt sort of like I couldn't do more at the end, even though I could see areas for improvement that I could accomplish before time was up.
Well, I've run out work to do on my game (I'm gonna be honest: these graphics are about the best I can do for fish…), which means it's time to submit! Click me if you want to see it. The game still has a really prototype-y feel to it, which is a shame, but there's not much to help it other than going almost back to the drawing board. I'm still proud of it though – in terms of "how much fun users will have with this" or "how pretty it looks", it can't hold a candle to my submission from LD23, but in terms of how original it is, this submission wins out. I think I've got an interesting start, but a good execution of this idea was infeasible from the start; although I avoided anything nasty like evolutionary algorithms, I ran into having a system which is hard for users to play with. Really, there needs to be more depth in the ecosystem to pull the idea off – right now, there's no way the herbivores will ever find a niche and live unless they drive their predators to extinction, and that's a problem. I'd love to pursue this idea further, but it's not a project for 24 hours.


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I have been uncharaterlistically negligent in my chronicling of my activitites and now find that I am six days behind. There is little explanation other than just finding more stimulating activity than writing the blog!
It was a busy and enjoyable week. Tuesday provided an opportunity to hear two Rameau pieces in the composer's important year - he died 250 years ago and when one considers that he was born two years before Bach and Handel, and died at the age of 80 in 1764, it is remarkable that this truly modern man has been so ignored by us in England. It is a bit late now to make amends, notwithstanding Glyndebourne's efforts with Hippolyte et Aricie in 2013 - but this week we had the opportunity to hear two delightful entertainments - Daphnis et Eglé and La naissance d'Osiris - written when this "late developer" composer was already 70, as well as the remarkable comic opera Platée, written a decade before.
We have much to thank William Christie for. His contribution to our knowlege about, and understanding of, French baroque music, as well as much more besides, is immense. And Les Arts Florissants were on parade at the Barbican on Tuesday with the double bill mentioned above. And of course it was a delight to hear these two pieces as vividly performed as always with Mr Christie.
But the real meat of this Rameau week was Platée in a concert version by the Early Opera Group which was to have been conducted by our dear friend Christian Curnyn. Alas Christian was unwell, but replaced by the superb Paul Agnew who also happens to be associate music director of Les Arts Flo. This wonderful piece was a revelation for many when given by the Royal Opera at the Barbican in 1997. And it was no less thrilling in St John's Smith Square on Thursday.
We heard a really well chosen cast with young Callum Thorpe a notable Jupiter, and a group of most experienced exponents of Rameau including Thomas Walker in the title role, Emmanuelle de Negri, Mark Milhofer, Emilie Rénard, and Martijn Cornet - a considerable team.
This week is also full with John Adams tomorrow at ENO, Mozart at the Royal College of Music on Wednesday, and Pelléas et Mélisande at the Royal Festival Hall on Thursday. I will try to keep up!
The RAM Opera department was in good form last night with an excellent Puccini double bill of Suor Angelica and Gianni Schicchi conducted extremely well by Peter Robinson - the perfect person for dealing with young singers with utmost care and authority. And William Kerley directed effective productions of each piece which gave great opportunities to the emerging singers to demonstrate their skills in every department. This was one of RA Opera's best evenings.
There was much to enjoy in these two pieces which each give great opportunities to the ensemble of young singers that make up Royal Academy Opera. Personalities which stood out included of the course Céline Forrest as Suor Angelica - her qualities have been noted elsewhere on numerous occasions - a fine young singer. The vocally immensely strong Zia Principessa of Claire Barnett-Jones was extremely welcome in such a young company - and Emily Vine, Nika Goric, Anna Sideris once again showed their strong personalities.
In Gianni Schicchi there was a galaxy of personalities - the glowing tenor of Oliver Johnston making much of Rinuccio and the ever developing bass of Tristan Hambleton providing a striking Simone. Gwilym Bowen, Rhiannon Llewellyn and Božidar Smiljanić added to their already impressive resumés, and each other carefully drawn character was beautifully presented by these young singers. And above all by the splendid Schicchi Haobin Wang.
The show is well worth a visit - it is a showcase for many of the best young singers who will be populating our opera companies in the coming seasons.
This evening is another thing altogether - how much further can one get from Puccini than with Rameau? This will be William Christie and co at the Barbican.
I had a really lovely 24 hours in Westbury-sub-Mendip, between the city of Wells and the cheese town of Cheddar. This part of England, essentially the heart of the ancient kingdom of Wessex, is particularly appealing, and I am thrilled that I have the very good excuse of my eldest daughter living there, to get there from time to time. We went on a longish post lunch walk yesterday and the weather remained kind though the sky was doing some dramatic things.
I am now back in London where we had the Garrick celebration this afternoon. More about that tomorrow.
There is a busy week coming up - the Royal Academy Opera's double bill tomorrow evening, Les Arts Florissants at the Barbican on Tuesday, and Platée at St John's Smith Square on Thursday. And there is more - but that is enough preview for now.....!
I had greatly enjoyed the Fiona Shaw production of Figaro when it was new in 2011 - it had some stunning singers in it including Iain Paterson and Roland Wood as Figaro and the Count, and the feisty Barbarina of Mary Bevan almost stole the show from the other ladies! So I thought it would be fun to return to see the original Barbarina promoted to Susanna. And of course she did splendidly - a consummate singing actress, exactly what is required for the part, and a fine Mozartian to boot.
And her successor as the tipsy Barbarina, Ellie Laugharne, is a young singer to watch too. She may very well be a fine Susanna on major stages a season or two hence.
Today I am off to Somerset to see my elder daughter and three of my crop of ten grandchildren. I will stay overnight and be back in town tomorrow to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the Garrick in its current building in Garrick Street.
I spent a really enjoyable evening in St James Church, Paddington yesterday. This was for just the second concert by an impressively enterprising group called Place de l'Opera, the brainchild of two young French conducting students at the Royal Academy of Music. These young men, Victor Jacob and Marc Hajjar, put together an exceptionally talented group of friends and fellow RAM students, both singers and orchestral instrumentalists, to give us a delightful 90 minutes of music making, executed with love and enthusiasm of the most infectious kind.
There were six singers, five from the RAM and a single representative of the Guildhall School, an excellent German baritone Johannes Kammler - a fine Mozartian with a very beautiful voice giving us Don Giovanni and the Count. This was classy singing from this young man. I am delighted to see that he studied with my old friend and colleague Patrick Raftery in Toronto.
The rest of the singers were a selection of the young RAM singers not yet in the Royal Academy Opera. There were two sopranos, very different but both really promising. Lorena Paz Nieto I noticed before at the RAM's vocal faculty scenes a week or two ago - she is a major prospect. As is the golden voiced Nika Goric - who showed really interesting possibilities as the Countess in a short excerpt from Le nozze di Figaro.
The very young Olivia Warburton showed distinction vocally and in her artistic personality in such variety as Siebel, Handel's Sesto, and a little bit of Cherubino (I'd love to see her in this role); a striking Brazilian tenor Wagner Moreira indicated some real vocal quality in spite of only having Basilio in the Figaro Act 1 trio to show what he is made of; and young Nick Mogg made a brief appearance as Figaro.
I take it that these young people will all be in the RAM Opera program next year. If so we are in for some really interesting evenings I would have thought.
Hats off to Victor and Marc for their enterprise - and do support them in the future. It is this sort of self starting initiative and leadership which renews ones faith in the huge power of music to achieve good things. So Chapeau to them!
So I was at the Dvořák's Cunning Peasant yesterday - quite a rarity although the Guildhall had a considerable success with in in 1997 so were understandably encouraged to give it another outing. It is certainly a piece of some charm along the lines of those Smetana operas such as The Kiss, The Secret, The Two Widows, and of course The Bartered Bride. The are very much of their time and place, unpretentious entertainment, and they give excellent opportunities to young singers to show their vocal, musical, and theatrical talents and achievements.
The enjoyable performance had particularly notable contributions from bass David Shipley - likely to be going places, and mezzo Emma Kerr, vocally and as an actor extremely secure and confident. The Guildhall opera department's director Dominic Wheeler was splendidly in command in the pit just about managing to tame the substantial orchestra in the Silk Street Theatre's small pit; and the excellent Stephen Medcalf production, said to be relocated to Wessex, looked nevertheless firmly rooted in central Europe with Francis O'Connor's delightful sets.
This kind of production is an excellent exercise for the developing opera singers that the Guildhall has successfully produced over the 50 years or so that I have been attending their performances, going back to the days when the school was located in Blackfriars.
I am looking forward to meeting many of these young people next week when I am invited to participate in one of their "encounters" events when the students meet old hands like me from the business!
Albert Bridge from Battersea Park 9:15 am November 9 2014
I was out in Battersea Park on a bicycle yesterday morning - one of the pleasures that I am discovering living by this splendid park. These "Boris bikes" as they are known, after their sponsor and advocate Mayor of London Boris Johnson, can be rented for £2 for 24 hours in as many 30 minute segments as you wish. If you keep them for more than half an hour at a time there is a surcharge......an odd but good system - they are intended to serve people who want to take short trips. You can deposit your bike in one of the hundreds of docking stations around town - then rent another for your return trip from the supermarket or whatever.
For now I am confining myself to the park - to go onto the dangerous London streets I will have to buy a helmet! So I took a 28 minute spin around the park, stopping to grab two pictures from the same spot by the river, the one of Albert Bridge above, and Chelsea with some handsome mansions below. The iPhone 6 camera can take some perfectly decent photos - very handy!
This evening the excellent Guildhall School of Music have a production of Smetana's* Cunning Peasant which I am greatly looking forward to. More about that tomorrow!
* PS - Czech muddle - silly me......it is Dvořák not Smetana!!! Not concentrating!
YES! - Les Martyrs from Opera Rara and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment at the Royal Festival Hall yesterday evening. This marvellous piece, Donizetti's wonderful and exotic adaptation for Paris of his Poliuto, was given a hugely successful public airing by Opera Rara following their recording of the piece which they have been doing these last three weeks.
This was the shortest three and a half hours on record - rich with fascinating orchestration and instrumentation (two harps doubling trumpets(!) for example - four bassoons and a cacophony of flutes/piccolos - as well as an ophicleide). It was an altogether exhilarating evening of the Grandest of Opera, magnificently conducted by Mark Elder, and with some remarkable singing from Joyce El-Khoury and Michael Spyres in the two leading roles, with no less formidable support from David Kempster, Brindley Sherratt and Clive Bayley, showing depth in the quality of the cast assembled by Opera Rara.
Yet another memorable evening from Opera Rara, following their Belisario and Fantasio these last two years.
It should be noted that there is the opportunity to hear Poliuto at Glyndebourne in 2015. That should certainly not be missed.
I have always found Fanciulla del West a problem. Puccini's ability to make huge impact in such pieces as Bohėme, Tosca, and Butterfly is partly the result of his economy and compactness - never a superfluous moment. Fanciulla has a problem first act for me - it is an hour long and lacks forward momentum. Whenever I see it I think that it must be just me at the moment. But every time I get impatient and irritated......and have been known to leave in frustration. But in Acts 2 and 3 he gets into his stride of course and the considerable musical and dramatic merits of the piece become irresistible - well almost.
I first saw the piece in December 1962 at Sadler's Wells - in a production by the company that was to become the English National Opera that we know today. That is a long time ago - but curiously memorable. I was sitting in the front row, the conductor was Warwick Braithwaite, and the powerful singing of the three principal singers, Elizabeth Fretwell, Don Smith, and Raimund Herincx, was overwhelming. Well that was then........
And now Puccini was particularly well served by the conducting of Keri-Lynn Wilson, a considerable discovery. Energy and passion there were in abundance, but also subtle delicacy as needed. The ever excellent ENO orchestra came up trumps again, and their remarkable chorus likewise, led as they were by the fiery Miss Wilson.
Craig Colclough was a very well cast Jack Rance - here is a very valuable new baritone who will surely have a prominent career. Peter Auty was the valiant Dick Johnson, and sang the only set piece aria of the opera, Ch'ella mi creda, in fine style with with the robust ringing sound needed for this hefty role. And best of all, the splendid Minnie of Susan Bullock - a real winner.
Richard Jones directed - I have little doubt that this work, accomplished with his usual eye for detail and intellectual integrity, will have a huge success in Santa Fe - ENO's co-producers. Whenever that may be - not in 2015.
The National Opera Studio has a busy calendar of events including Lunchtime recitals at All Saints Church in Wandsworth High Street, near their splendid premises in South West London. They are mostly free and unticketed, a nice bonus for local residents.
Yesterday evening they had a major "scenes" show set in a speed-dating bar! A nice, and not unsuccessful, idea from the creative director of the show, Gilles Rico. It gave an excellent framework for what was essentially a sequence of arias, duets, and ensembles with the theme of love, in all its forms and of every colour. For those of you who, like me, are unfamiliar with speed-dating, well it is kind of Match.com live........I am assuming that you are familiar with the concept at least!
The NOS has a high level of "trainee" - post post graduate level and decidedly on their professional way. There is nothing remotely "student like" about any of these young people so we were treated to some very good stuff indeed.
I was delighted to see Tereza Gevorgyan, a Neue Stimmen finalist last time round. She delivered a charming Adina and Marie in the well put together Donizetti sequence, as well as a convincing Cendrillon, in which she was matched by the glowing voiced Prince Charming of Hanna-Liisa Kirchin.
There were many other excellent things - notably the versatile young lyric tenor Trystan Griffiths who made his mark in Donizetti and Mozart; and the impressive tenor Gerard Schneider who distinguished himslef whilst a student at the Guildhall School, and now is a stand out at the NOS; and Roisín Walsh, a fine Butterfly of most generous personality who catches attention as a real theatre person.
It was a fine evening of music making by talented youth. Tomorrow I will be at the final performance of the English National Opera's acclaimed production of La fanciulla del West.
We are having another glorious few days with the city looking as pretty as it possibly can. So I took a few minutes after lunch to walk from somewhere just east of Vauxhall Bridge to Lambeth Bridge to Westminster Bridge - and to enjoy the life of the Thames and the sight of the Palace of Westminster on a sunny 70 degree late October afternoon. Lovely........!
Final line up including John Norris, Gustav Kuhn, Liz Mohn, and Francisco Araiza
I am on my way back to London after two enjoyable days in Gütersloh. The concert last night was a happy occasion with this varied dozen enjoying themselves hugely while delivering some really distinguished performances.
With Gustav Kuhn in charge and three outstanding pianists, Céline Dutilly, Peter Nelson, and Raffaele Cortesi (seen left) providing indispensable support, we were always in for quality music making. And so it was – with exceptional performances from Lithuanian soprano Aistė Pilibavičiûtė, Canadian mezzo Rihab Chaieb, American tenor Jonathan Winell, and Korean baritone Joseph Lim. And really excellent stuff all round – I just mention one from each voice………
We also had a lovely performance of Zueignung from German soprano Raffaela Lintl, 22 year old Italian mezzo Aurora Faggioli delivered a "Rosina meets Carmen" performance of Una voce poco fa, and 23 year old Romanian mezzo Maria Popa demonstrated her remarkable vocal strength and range with Fenena from Nabucco.
I was so glad to hear from Rihab Chaieb that she will be singing Mercedes in Carmen at Glyndebourne next season. It was also good to see Chicago Ryan Center alumnus Joseph Lim, and to hear him in such good form; and to hear also how spendidly Jonathan Winell has developed during his year in the Berlin Staatsoper.
These periodic reunions are hugely enjoyable! The next one will be in Berlin March - a prizewinners' concert at which some of the very best of past Neue Stimmen winners will treat us!
To see the 20 year old Rossini's La scala di seta is a rare treat and so, at the Linbury Theatre at the Royal Opera House, there was a sold out house on Thursday. It is difficult stuff, starting with the famous overture where the oboes get tested to the limit - they did well. And so it goes on for the singers.
There were stand out performances from James Platt and Yuri Yurchuk. I was particularly delighted to see and hear Yurchuk - he is a graduate of De Paul University in Chicago where our old friend Marc Embree was his teacher I believe. He is a great credit to this fine school which I know well from Chicago days of course.
I am now in Gütersloh where the 2014 masterclasses have been conducted all week, culminating this evening with a programme which promises to be entertaining and high quality, judging from the rehearsal that I attended yesterday evening. Cheryl Studer, Gustav Kuhn and Francisco Araiza have been the "masters", and there are a dozen singers, mostly drawn from Neue Stimmen finals candidates, from a wide range of countries, including Germany, Italy, Korea, Lithuania, Canada, Georgia, Brazil, Slovakia, Mexico, and the USA. A terrific mix of talented personalities.
Tutti in rehearsal for L'italiana in Algeri finale Friday evening October 24
A quick update - I am on the way to Gütersloh (home of Neue Stimmen) for two days. I will be reporting from there this eveing and tomorrow. Meanwhile I hope to catch up with other things, in particular the Jette Parker production of La scala di seta which opened last night. More later..........
Thursday saw a visit to each of the Royal Academies - firstly of Arts at Burlington House where the splendid Dennis Hopper show ends this weekend.
And more importantly the Vocal Faculty at the RAM had their opera scenes show, a two hour sans interval ten scene marathon which showed off a huge number of the current crop of singers.
I can not name them all but must just mention some standouts for me - just my quirkiness perhaps but here goes!
There is a promising Polish countertenor to watch out for who appeared in the two Handel selections, as Ruggero in Alcina and Bertarido in Rodelinda. This is Damian Ganclarski - a fine figure of a fellow, with easy stage presence and commitment, and an excellent voice used expressively to boot. He should do well.
There is a firm beautiful voice in the making in Alex Otterburn, who negotiated Don Giovanni and the Count in two of the four Mozart excepts with impressive confidence. An excellent impression - again promises good stuff for the future.
And the real jewel was a brand new Masters student from Spain via the Guildhall School of Music, Lorena Paz - a delightful Despina. I look forward to seeing and hearing much of her in the future. She will no doubt join Royal Academy Opera next year if she does not get snapped up before then!
I am now off to Glyndeburne for the touring Turn of the Screw which opens at the home theatre this afternoon.
As regular readers know I had the extreme pleasure of serving on the jury of the Carl Nielsen competition in Denmark last month. And today I revisited the special world of the flute when I attended a masterclass with William Bennett at the Royal Academy of Music. And what an afternoon it was!
William Bennett is of course a renowned soloist - amongst the world's most distinguished. During my week in Denmark I discovered that flautists are a very special breed, crazy about their instrument and eloquent expressive musicians not unlike singers in their ability to reflect considerable emotion in their playing. So I should not have been surprised to have been so entertained and moved by Bennett's passionate teaching style, and enchanting wicked humour.
Three very young RAM flautist students showed their paces - firstly Silvija Scerbaviciuite, from Vilnius, Lithuania via Chethams School, in the very beautiful third movement of Widor's Suite.
Second up was Chloe Bradshaw - playing Benjamin Godard's delightful Waltz from his Suite Op 116. And finally the very brave Laura Davies who made a fine job of the Dutilleux Sonatine, one of the pieces that I heard around a dozen times in the Nielsen competition in Odense.
Bennett is clearly an inspirational teacher, balancing rigour and discipline with warm encouragement and evident pleasure when, as so often happened this afternoon, the young players responded with commitment both to the music itself and the coaching he was giving them. I had to leave after the break and was sorry to miss the last two - William Bennett had the stamina however to continue until 6 pm!
Tomorrow I am back at the Royal Academy for a scenes event from the Vocal faculty - and at the the other Royal Academy for two shows - Dennis Hopper and Anselm Kiefer.
I have had a busy week and have been less than diligent on the blog.......
There was a fine opportunity on Wednesday evening to hear a good many of the Royal Academy of Muisc students - the Pavarotti Prize. Sadly there was precious little Italian opera on offer, and no Verdi at all - something that Pavarotti might have raised his eyebrows at! But there is little Verdi available for young singers apart from Oscar, Nanetta and Fenton......better not let them get at the heftier stuff too soon.
The prize was won by the finest voice - and that was the excellent Céline Forrest - a fullish lyric singing Dove sono and The Jewel song. I have no idea who came second, or indeed if anyone was named as runner up or highly commended. There were some excellent candidates for such an accolade - Angharad Lyddon is one to watch, as is Emily Vine. No doubt all will be seen again when the RAM produce a Puccini double bill in November - plenty of parts for display in Gianni Schicchi and Suor Angelica.
Earlier in the day I got at last to a jewel of an exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery. This was Virginia Woolf: Art, Life, and Vision. It only on for another week or so - a delight and easy to pop into for an hour or less. And it is accompanied by a treasure of a book by the exhibition's curator Frances Spalding.
Yesterday evening I was at the Queen Elizabeth Hall for an intriguing Rameau double bill - Pigmalion and Anacréon. As always the early evening crossing to the South Bank showed London and its river to advantage.
It was good to see a packed house for this Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment season opener. And such a pleasure it was indeed to discover, for me, unknown Rameau. What a pioneer he was......
There was some fine singing, in particular from Daniel Auchincloss and Anna Dennis.
Rameau scholar Jonathan Williams conducted and it was good to see last Saturday's excellent conductor of Poppea at the Barbican, Robert Howarth, at the harpsichord last night. Strong casting!!
Little is it realised the extent to which the "Assistant conductor" contributes to the success of a production. Major opera companies will have a number of them on the staff, beavering away in the background and so often, it has to be declared, making the difference between a guest conductor having a success or not.........e
Some even emerge from a long career as a staff conductor to take a place amongst the Pantheon of the greats. Reginald Goodall comes to mind. So it is good that they come into the limelight on occasion.
And so it was at the Royal Opera House yesterday evening when Paul Wynne Griffiths took charge of the last performance of Rigoletto. This was a series of performances that had some cast changes along the way. But we got the original cast last night.......and Griffiths had everything under complete control of course. It is to the huge credit of the house that they retain the services of such indispensable and so often under valued and under appreciated team players.
The cast was the usual mixed bag one gets in the great opera houses these days. Not an Italian in sight, an Albanian tenor, a Polish soprano, a Lithuanian mezzo, an English Rigoletto (the always distinguished Simon Keenlyside) and Sparafucile........a patchwork of the best around these days but do we not all so miss Italian opera sung by Italians?! Things will only get worse as opera is dying in Italy - the latest casualty being the Rome Opera.
The Royal Opera House is on a roll - a sold out house on a Monday evening for this revival of David McVicar's production, at the highest prices in Europe. As Molière rightly said "Of all the noises known to man, Opera is the most expensive".
The Academy of Ancient Music has adorned the London music scene, and more widely around the world, for more than 40 years. The recent death of its founder Christopher Hogwood reminded us, if necessary, of the huge influence that the AAM has had on the early music movement. And it was entirely appropriate that Christopher should have been paid tribute at last night's semi-staged performance of Monteverdi's Poppea.
The AAM put together a stellar cast, including Anna Caterina Antonacci in the title role and Sarah Connolly as Nero. Antonacci was a very specific piece of casting, breaking many of the rules - but she could have been remarkable in the role. Alas she withdrew. Her replacement was a no less distinguished and revered artist, Lynne Dawson - and the result of course was also a very different Poppea from one's normal expectations, but as stylish and sophisticated as one would expect from such a fine artist.
Sarah Connolly gave an astonishing performance as Nero - marvellous singing and a remarkable assumption of the character of the appalling Nero. Iestyn Davies, undoubtedly the counter-tenor du jour by a mile, brought all his customary subtlety to his assumption of Ottone - another riveting performance from this splendid artist. Marina de Liso was a powerfully moving Ottavia, and Matthew Rose, the best young bass of the day, completed the main principal line up as Seneca - a fine array indeed.
There was true depth in the casting with striking contributions from Sophie Junker as Drusilla, really lovely, the excellent Daniela Lehner as Damigella, Andrew Tortise a very finely sung Arnalta, and Elmar Gilbertsson a mightily sensuous Lucano in both singing and acting. All other roles were strongly taken, including some sensible double casting, and I must especially mention Charmian Bedford, daughter of my old friends Steuart and Celia, as the excellent La Fortuna.
The other casualty of the evening was the original conductor Richard Egarr - but the AAM had the good fortune to have Robert Howarth in command of his little band of just ten players.
The "semi-staging" was devised by Alexander Oliver and Tim Nelson. And they dealt with the challenge of the Barbican with considerable aplomb. The audience loved it - it was however slightly ironic that the back page of the Barbican program last night was advertising performances at the Wanamaker Playhouse, site of the last performance I saw of a Venetian opera, Cavalli's L'Ormindo.
When Nicholas Hytner's production of Xerxes was unveiled at the Coliseum in 1985 it was clear that Handel at last, on his 300th birthday, had taken his rightful place as central to our repertoire - Hytner had found a way to communicate in 20th century theatrical language, with a not small contribution from Charles Mackerras in the pit, the humanity of this operatic genius and the universal appeal of his operas. We now take all this for granted as so many of Handel's operas have taken their place in the repertoire of the "grand opera" houses of North America and Europe. The influence of this production can not be over estimated.
And so has also emerged a remarkable family of opera singers who think nothing of singing Handel at the Met or Munich, and an army of outstanding counter-tenors in the place of the three or four that one might have identified 40 years ago.
ENO has had a distinguished record in this repertory since 1985. While Semele had been produced at Sadler's Wells, only the excellent John Copley production of Julius Caesar had been seen at the Coliseum before the Hytner breakthrough.
Alice Coote and Sarah Tynan
The title role of Xerxes, taken with such distinction by Ann Murray in 1985, has seen Sarah Connolly and now, in the current revival Alice Coote - our three unequalled Handelian mezzos of recent years. And Alice Coote was joined with utter distinction by Sarah Tynan as Romilda. Alice Coote gives a riveting performance in every department - such a joy to see and hear such engagement as she completely inhabits the role.
With a fine group of singers in the other roles, notably Neal Davies and Andrew Watts, and Harewood artists Rhian Lois and Catherine Young, we had a real company performance showing once again the strength in depth of the indispensable English National Opera. Yet another happy evening at the Coliseum.
I am sure the gardeners welcome the rain but it is bleak out there this morning.......
The opera program at the RAM has got off to a very quick start just three weeks into their with a two hour programme of scenes which was somewhat blighted by the illness of their best young people Emily Vine and Bradley Smith. But, resourceful as ever, Jane Glover and her team improvised with valiant performances at a day's notice from Christopher Diffey and Christine Buras from the side of the stage, with Emily and Bradley acting .....it is a proven technique not infrequently used in more august locations than a conservatory.
Emily Vine, Angharad Lyddon with Henry Neill in Korngold's Die tote Stadt
The program was remarkably varied with Poulenc, Rossini, Monteverdi, Korngold, Cimrosa, Berlioz and Richard Strauss all making contributions. The very clever John Ramster and his designers Jake Wiltshire and Patrick Doyle made seamless transitions between each scene - some achievement.
There were striking contributions from Bozidar Smiljanic and Henry Neill, two very promising young singers, and clearly the rest of RAM Opera 2014-15, many familiar from their recent performances there, are off to a busy start to their year. We look forward to seeing them in full production mode in a Puccini double bill in November.
This evening I am at the Coliseum for Xerxes - and tomorrow Poppea at the Barbican. And for something completely different Rigoletto at the Royal Opera House on Monday.
Meanwhile we can enjoy yet another beautiful October day.
I have had a few days of catching up with old friends and colleagues, and a few more to go this week. Last week it was the perennial delight of seeing Tom Graham who is as relaxed and amusing as ever, a big heart and a sharp observer of our musical environment. Nobody can get away with anything......!
The occasion was celebration of his 70th birthday. He had three - one in New York and two here in London the first of which I missed as I was in Denmark. As always at such events there were many old friends and colleagues - a happy occasion all round.
On Monday I was delighted to see John Willan after quite a little time, for lunch at the excellent Union Café in Marylebone Lane. John was boss of the LPO during my last years at Glyndebourne, had an immensely successful spell at BBC Worldwide, was co-founder of Hazard Chase, and has recently opened a new "boutique" management company - Percius - which is already making waves.
There were more reminiscences on Tuesday with Alexander Oliver coming to dinner at Battersea. Sandy is in London to direct the Academy of Ancient Music's semi staged performance of Poppea at the Barbican on Saturday evening. This takes us back to the beginnings of Glyndebourne Touring Opera in 1968 - and Sandy has just retired from the leadership of the Opera programme of the Amsterdam Conservatory. So almost 50 years of stories!
And today Christopher Hunt, who is in London for a few days from his home in France, was another visitor to Battersea. So more catching up again.......
This evening I am at the Royal Academy of Music for the first Opera Scenes event of their academic year. More about that tomorrow.

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I'm not a total noob at this gig, but I had a noob moment today.
Decided to make Biermuncher's Centennial Blonde. Converted to a partial mash recipe from tastybrew.com calculator as follows:
Batch size 5.5 gal
Boil Volume 3.5 gal
Nottingham Yeast
3# Extra Pale DME
3# Two-row
.75# CaraFoam (didn't have CaraPils)
.5# Vienna
.5# Crystal 10
Mashed grains @ 150 (per muncher's instructions) at a thickness of 1.7 qt/lb to keep my mash voluume around 2 gallons. Everything went peachy; however, my OG reading after filling my primary bucket was 1.068 @ room temp. Regardless of adjustments, I missed my mark by about 30 grav. points..
I adjusted by racking off about a gallon into a smaller carboy (aka milk jug) and diluted to 1.041.
I know I rectified the problem, but does anyone see where I went wrong with this ordeal?
You should have done some reading of similar threads or posted before you tried to "rectify" the problem, because you would have found out there was no problem, and you didn't have to do anything.
We get this question every day
It's a pretty common issue for ANYONE topping off with water in the fermenter (and that includes partial mashes, extract or all grain revcipes) to have an error in reading the OG...In fact, it is actually nearly impossible to mix the wort and the top off water in a way to get an accurate OG reading...
Brewers get a low reading if they get more of the top off water than the wort, conversely they get a higher number if they grabbed more of the extract than the top off water in their sample.
When I am doing an extract with grain recipe I make sure to stir for a minimum of 5 minutes (whipping up a froth to aerate as well) before I draw a grav sample and pitch my yeast....It really is an effort to integrate the wort with the top off water...This is a fairly common new brewer issue we get on here...unless you under or over topped off or the final volume for the kit was 5 gallons and you topped off to 5.5, then the issue, sorry to say, is "operator error"
More than likely your true OG is really what it's supposed to be. And it will mix itself fine during fermentation.
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The only reason I was confused is that I've done every batch except my first as partials and my numbers have never been this far off..
So you're saying that by diluting my wort after topping, I actually over-diluted?
I'm saying more than likely you didn't mix well enough, wort and water don't mix all that easier, so you grabbed a sample that wasn't cohesive and it gave you a false reading.
Thw wort and water would mix fine during the agitation of fermentation, but at the gravity reading it was skewed.


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Last updated at 07:56, Friday, 11 January 2013
The builder Construction Partnership UK (CPUK) has won contracts to build two major retail developments in Cumbria worth almost £6.5m.
The Lancashire firm is starting work on a £4.3m expansion of Castle Retail Park in Ullswater Road, Penrith, for The Welbeck Estates Company.
And it has been awarded a £2m contract to refurbish part of the St Nicholas' Gate retail park in London Road, Carlisle, for clients of LaSalle Investment Management. The retail developments are CPUK's first contracts in Cumbria as it expands outside its heartland of Merseyside, Greater Manchester and Lancashire.
CPUK is already on site building the 61,000 sq ft extension to Castle Retail Park, which will provide high-quality retail warehousing and 214 more parking spaces.
The scheme is due for completion in May next year.
The St Nicholas Gate revamp, in London Road in Carlisle, includes an extension to the existing retail development, better access, road and traffic improvements and increased car parking.
It also involves demolition of the Burger King restaurant there.
Steve Burke, CPUK's managing director, says activity for the company is now returning to something like pre-recession levels – with retail developments proving particularly strong.
He said: "The retail sector is becoming an important part of our project pipeline and our experience in it goes back many years working for the likes of Peel Holdings and Starbucks.
"The key to new projects and to the refurbishment of existing developments seems to be the securing of anchor tenants and we are seeing a number of ambitious retail park extensions getting the go-ahead as a result of this.
"Both Cumbrian projects are extensions to popular and successful retail developments. Our strong track record of delivery in this sector is holding us in good stead when it comes to winning work like this.
"We now have £20 million of work confirmed for the next 12 months, which is a return to pre-recession activity."
CPUK is one of the North West's most experienced construction operations.
Its retail expertise includes projects at Media City in Salford and the Trafford Centre.
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This year's meeting marked the ESSR's 19th annual congress and its second time hosting a congress in Austria. The hands-on workshops proved to be particularly popular (with more than 150 applicants) and they allowed participants to learn and practice ultrasound techniques for the hand and wrist. In all, the meeting boasted almost 100 faculty members from around the world and it proved to be an ideal opportunity for beginners and experts to hone their skills in the field of musculoskeletal radiology.
The ESSR has always been keen to include non-members in its meetings and this year's congress attracted a great number. The congress president, Dr. Andrea Sabine Klauser, said ahead of the event, "The 19th ESSR annual meeting is open to all radiologists and clinicians with an interest in musculoskeletal imaging, both members and non-members of ESSR. Young colleagues and students are warmly invited to join our annual congress and to present their scientific work."
The ESSR is dedicated to improving diagnosis and treatment in musculoskeletal medicine through imaging. It supports and promotes research throughout Europe and its annual congress is the ideal occasion for much of this research to be presented and shared. The ESSR is a subspecialty society affiliated with the European Society of Radiology (ESR) and its annual congress is held with the organisational and administrative support of the ESR office.
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