{"id":935,"date":"2006-02-09T21:20:44","date_gmt":"2006-02-10T01:20:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=935"},"modified":"2006-02-11T11:11:07","modified_gmt":"2006-02-11T15:11:07","slug":"burnt-toast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=935","title":{"rendered":"Burnt Toast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcap\">I<\/span> <a class=\"imagelink\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/02\/bu_rnt_toas_t.jpg\" title=\"Burnt Toast\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/02\/bu_rnt_toas_t.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Burnt Toast\" \/><\/a>was near to falling asleep when tunes from (apparantly) a CBC show woke me up: Burnt Toast. It&#8217;s listed as a romantic comedy opera piece in 8 act, and it sports a list of comedians and opera singers in 8 acts that range from funny to outrageous funny. The music is good too: I particularly enjoyed the interludes, atonal parts that would fit right in sections of the music <a href=\"http:\/\/www.everything2.net\/index.pl?node_id=1223826&#038;orderby=createtime%20DESC&#038;usersearch=Hooverdirt&#038;lastnode_id=523409\">I truly loved<\/a>. During some parts, the opera reminded me of &#8216;The 7 Deadly Sins&#8217;, the last Weill and Brecht. It&#8217;s exactly that: a mix of TV, opera, modern music and comedy.\n<\/p>\n<p>I see that the production was in the hands of the CBC and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.burnttoastopera.com\/\">that the opera has a website<\/a> with all the Flash and that. It&#8217;s soon available on DVD too, so for you Europeans, you just have to wait for another 6 months or so before CBC decides to sell it to another public broadcaster in your local area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was near to falling asleep when tunes from (apparantly) a CBC show woke me up: Burnt Toast. It&#8217;s listed as a romantic comedy opera piece in 8 act, and it sports a list of comedians and opera singers in &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=935\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/935"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/935\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}