It captured every brilliant thing about Peake: the glorious writing; the strangeness; the collision of voices and realities; the satire of now – whenever now is as you read or listen – and the beautiful, vivid conjuring of fragments of the past.
While there are hearty supporting roles for Talise Trevigne (Pip), Matthew O'Neill (third mate Flask), and the ever garrulous Robert Orth (second mate Stubb), Heggie's score also features some glorious writing for the opera's four male leads.
What was different was the lead star, with Robinson Cano seemingly coming of age in one glorious day, writes Ian O'Connor on ESPN.com.
'In our glorious optimism,' writes Boyd, 'we believed that "when the modes of the music change, the walls of the city shake".
It's a strange but glorious experience, writes Charlotte Mendelson, who accompanied her partner, shortlisted author Joanna Briscoe, on the most luxurious literary beano in the world.
Her first album, Glorious, was written between the ages of 16 and 18 but it wasn't released until 2014, when she was 24, because other things, good things, got in the way.
"Before Black Watch soldiers went into action against insurgents on Wednesday night, Lt Col James Cowan, the battalion's commanding officer, struck an elegiac note when he recalled the regiment's glorious tradition," writes the paper.
The image is too big for our site, so hit the link below to view the glorious masterpiece written by "Genkaku".
Check it out above, or if you're in an environment where you can't listen in, or just prefer glorious words written by Greg Kumparak over these newfangled moving pictures, check out our live blog.
A reporter for the online magazine Glorious Noise wrote, "It would not surprise me at all if Elliott Smith ends up dead within a year".
In the song "Glorious Devon" written by Sir Edward German in 1905, several Devonshire dishes receive praise: "Squab pie, junket and cider brew, Richest cream of the cow, What 'ud Old England without 'em do?" Another legend surrounding squab pie, along with the other unusual pies of Cornwall, is that they were the reason that the Devil never came to Cornwall.
