The vibe at Rosas is 1920s' Berlin burlesque set in a beautiful colonial building with the top floor turned into a stylish bar/club with live performances, antique furniture and great cocktails.
Specialty vehicles -- Yenko performance models, antique pickups and others -- share the space along with an impressive accumulation of signs, books, sales brochures and other automobilia.
The opening of Mitchell Park, a waterfront attraction with a glass-enclosed antique carousel, open-air performance space and wooden promenade, is a symbol of all that's new here.
The group uses modern pop vocal inflections and improvisational techniques from jazz in its performances of antique pieces, and it applies Baroque timbres to modern popular tunes.
Saturday at 10 p.m. Cover: $7. "Stanhope Spring Festival," Today from noon to 6 p.m., including crafts and vendors, pony rides, antique car show and musical performances, including Liquifyed-and Lady Blue and the Tramps and Roger (Hurricane) Wilson.
An antique and strangulated chirrup, with a performance to match.
There was also a repeat performance of Jerome Robbins's "Antique Epigraphs".
He was the first classical actor of his generation to discard antique modes of Shakespearean interpretation and performance.
The newly-formed Emerson, Lake and Palmer start their first-ever performance by firing an antique canon, while Jim Morrison and Jimi Hendrix give their last-ever UK performances before they get busy with dying.
In those days period ensembles that sounded vigorous on disc often proved anemic in concert, and the instruments' antique technology was regularly blamed for mediocre performances.
For a peek behind the scenes, visit Memus, the Museum and Historical Archives of the Teatro di San Carlo (Palazzo Reale; 39-06-3996-7050; meurosorg; 6 euros), filled with operatic history, antique costumes and a space to screen performances in 3-D.
