{"id":267,"date":"2008-07-05T20:47:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-05T20:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/u75blog\/?p=267"},"modified":"2008-07-05T20:47:00","modified_gmt":"2008-07-05T20:47:00","slug":"candide-at-the-english-national-opera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/candide-at-the-english-national-opera\/","title":{"rendered":"Candide at the English National Opera"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Candide tickets - English National Opera, The London Coliseum\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/london\/images\/candide-opera-01.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not normally an opera-going sort of chap, but we popped along to see a production of Candide by the English National Opera at The London Coliseum.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Candide tickets - English National Opera, The London Coliseum\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/london\/images\/candide-opera-02.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Voltaire&#8217;s story of a young bloke hell-bent on follow his tutor\u2019s philosophy of cheery and perpetual optimism in the face of endless personal disasters is an entertaining tale, and the performance and stage sets were spectacular and exquisite.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Candide tickets - English National Opera, The London Coliseum\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/london\/images\/candide-opera-03.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, pre-show photography is completely banned in the beautiful theatre on some fuzzy grounds of &#8220;copyright,&#8221;&nbsp; so here&#8217;s a few snatched shots at the beginning and end.<br \/>.<br \/>&nbsp;<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Candide tickets - English National Opera, The London Coliseum\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/london\/images\/candide-opera-04.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Candide tickets - English National Opera, The London Coliseum\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/london\/images\/candide-opera-05.jpg\" \/> <\/p>\n<p>Read review from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestage.co.uk\/reviews\/review.php\/21107\/candide\">The Stage<\/a><br \/>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not normally an opera-going sort of chap, but we popped along to see a production of Candide by the English National Opera at The London Coliseum. Voltaire&#8217;s story of &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6343,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[10,131],"class_list":["post-267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-stuff","tag-london","tag-opera"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/candide-opera-01.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQI7P-4j","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}