Where’s Pat?

Current location: Saumur

2024 Calendar

Plans:

• September 25-October 21: Saumur
• October 10-12: Montpellier for OFII appointment, required for visa renewal
• October 21-22: Paris
• October 23-26: Brussels, with Flori; lunch with Helene the 24th
• October 24: Handel’s “Esther” at Bozar, Julia Lezhneva, Ton Koopman, Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra
• October 25: “The Time of Our Singing” at La Monnaie / De Munt
• October 26-29: perhaps Aachen
• October 29: Eurostar to London
• October 29-November 5: London
• October 30: “Coriolanus”
• October 31: “Oedipus”
• November 1: “The Duchess”
• November 5-13: Diana’s in Deal
• November 13-December 4: Saumur
• December 4-9: Paris
• December 5: Handel’s “Alcina” – concert version, Sandrine Piau as Morgana
• December 10-23: Copenhagen
• December 23-January 2: Stockholm
• 2025!
• January 2-6: Roissy and Paris
• January 6-February 17, possibly beyond: Saumur

2024 so far:

• December 30-January 3: downtown Toulouse
• January 3-5: Montpellier
• January 5-13: Saint-Georges-d’Orques (Hérault)
• January 13-18: Bourges
• January 18-22: Le Blanc
• January 22-26: Châteauroux
• January 26-29: Tours
• January 29 – February 8: house hunting with Kristian from the Touraine to Burgundy
• February 8-22: in Tours, catching up and planning
• February 22-Mar 9: Montpellier and roaming in the south
• February 23: André Dussollier in “Sens dessus dessous” at the Opéra Comédie de Montpellier.
• March 9-11: Colmar
• March 10: “Polifemo” staged by Opéra national du Rhin with Franco Fagioli
• March 11-16: Maastricht for TEFAF Art Fair
• March 16-20: Paris
• March 19: “Simon Boccanegra” at Opera Bastille, Paris, with Ludovic Tézier
• March 20-26: Thouars, viewing houses
• March 23-24: 75th Salon des vins et terroirs, Thouars
• March 27-28: Le Mans
• March 28-April 1: Ruffec
• April 1-10: Cognac
• April 10-17: Narbonne
• April 18- : Saumur and environs
• …
• May 12-19 plans CANCELED. Had planned London, for John Eliot Gardiner conducting all nine Beethoven symphonies at the Church of Saint Martin in the Fields. Symphonies were performed, sans JEG, and sans moi in the audience. Have a credit, then, at SMITF to use in 2024-2025.
• …
• July 4: fly back to St Louis
• August 16: fly back to Paris
• August 17-19: Paris, with Francisca
• August 19-26: Saumur, with Francisca
• August 26-September 9: Montpellier, visa renewal
• September 9-19: Narbonne, Kristian joining me the 13th
• September 19-24: Gruissan