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 Zauberflote and Marriage of Figaro (double-bill, abridged) at the conservatory.  Graduation performances.  Quite good.  Zauberflote especially.  I imagine Austrian culture was once a complex question here, given the Hungarian magnates in the area.  

I'm not a freemason, but Zauberflote is a mystery piece.  Always meaningful.  Longstanding habit of mine never to applaud in the second act. 

Day quite warm.  Double-timed the 45 (25) minute walk in the first of the summer heat, so arrived as if finishing a run.  Kept to the back, where there was, alas, little air.  Air in the house proper much better than the other evening though.  Oxygen makes for better art.