So I’ve been here for two years now. This will be the 534th post. Readership has grown from 267 hits in September 2011 to between 4000 and 7000 per month in 2013 (there’s more traffic outside of the summer months). It’s been a blast.
Thanks to everyone who has helped along the way including all the great people at Canadian Opera Company, Against the Grain Theatre and Opera Five among others. And special thanks to fellow opera bloggers The Earworm, Regie or not Regie, Opera Obsession, Definitely the Opera and Third Floor Republic and to many, many others for helping create a real sense of community.
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Long may it reign! Online party!!! (Or at least videos of Jane?)
Thanks!
Congratulations – here’s to the next 534 posts!
Thanks!
Congratulations, and the feeling is mutual. Thanks for being blog-community for me!
You are most welcome!
Congratulations! Your blog provides a very much needed local point of view on live and recorded performances. Your energy for writing blogposts is astonishing!
Energy or insomnia…
Congratulations. I have enjoyed reading the posts, and as a sideline watching your growing status as a critic!
Thank you! I confess to have found the last two years very surprising.
Congratulations! You deserve to be so widely read, and more!
Thank you!
Congratulations. I only found your blog about a year ago but I never buy a DVD without checking to see if you have reviewed it. The polite, adult tone of your blog is also much apprectiated.
Thank you. I think the “polite, adult tone” is at least as much thanks to the commenters as to me.
That’s awesome, congratulations on two years! And thanks for your part in anchoring a very pleasant neighborhood of the blogosphere.
Thank you for helping make it pleasant.
Congrats, that growth in two years is MASSIVE!
No one is more surprised than me!