Since we’re all posting schedules, here’s mine:

1:00 pm Fly to Pittsburgh

6:30 pm to Saturday evening: Liberty Fund Colloquium (tr.: “bunch of eggheads all trying to talk at same time”) with title “Liberty & Responsibility in Mozart’s The Magic Flute.” Includes:

Friday 8:00 pm Performance of Magic Flute at Pittsburgh opera house.

Sunday midday: Fly home to tax due notices from accountant, winter-wrecked garden, ancient & dysfunctional car, bickering kids, impossible deadlines, etc. etc.

I’m hoping, at any rate, that this colloquium will cure me of my Papagenophobia.

And in the who-knew? category, I’ve been reading up my Mozart & note that Prof. Chailley (The Magic Flute–Masonic Opera) thinks “Papageno” should be pronounced Italian style, with a soft “g.” This is news to me, and to every opera company I have ever seen do a Flute.