Three Tenors!

Our summer here in the Lot continues with a plethora of cultural events which we find amazing for such a rural environment.  Last night we went with our friends and neighbours John and Lesley to a tiny village about half an hour away where there was an opera-concert in the church.  It's a tiny church holding about 200 seats.

We went last year and thoroughly enjoyed ourselves and so were determined to go again this year!  This year the concert was entitled 'Three Tenors'.  Once we were there and saw the programme, it contained all of the choice arias for tenors and we gradually realised that the evening was to be a tongue-in-cheek homage to the famous 'Three Tenors' world cup concert.  This makes it sound like a bit of a pastiche but, due to the quality of the singers, the evening was a bravura performance.

The concert has been organised for a number of years by an englishman in aid of the upkeep of the village.  Quaintly, the audience had the quality of a step back into Colonel Blimp land; old gentlemen in their summer linen suits and ladies in light, flowing summer frocks giving the occassion an air of the village cricket barbecue.  However, the 'colonel of the regiment' has wonderful connections and is able to attract top class performers to come to this little sleepy village; these tenors have sung with many of the leading opera companies. 

We took our own nibbles and glass of wine to get us in the right mood before the start, and the tickets included a glass of wine at the interval.  A fabulous evening ... but we hope it doesn't get too well known!!!