Today, amidst the light showers of the afternoon, we took the opportunity to watch Mixed Precipitation’s production of Philemon & Baucis, an operetta featuring music from Haydn (of course, as the author of P&B), Freddy Mercury, and other musicians, as produced in Summit Hill Community Garden. It tells the story of the Solar System, from Creation and its most beautiful child, the Earth, Earth’s subsequent endangerment by its own inhabitants, and its abandonment by the God Jupiter. Oh, how will it end?
Well, we lost one scene to the weather, which made for some incoherency, but the treats were not delayed in the least. My Arts Editor said the singing was quite good, given the circumstances, and I thought the staging was imaginative and took advantage of the extra depth afforded by the park.
If you enjoy whimsy, it’s worth a whirl.
