a friend of ours had free tickets to a dress rehearsal for the metropolitan opera's production of la boheme. it's never been one of my favorite opera stories, but the music is so beautiful that i found myself more interested this time and really enjoyed it. two children we knew were in it and it was fun seeing them march about in the crowd scenes.
there were two half hour intermissions. for the first one we had a sandwich while sitting on the fountain in the sun.
we left during the second one as we had friends coming over whom we hadn't seen all summer. it was really nice to catch up and talk about the new school year.
Well, I just tried to leave a comment, but it is gone. I will try again tomorrow. Too late for tonight.
ReplyDeleteI have never been to this one. I normally don't like opera so much. I did watch "Fidelio" and "Marriage of Figaro" several times in Germany and liked those quite a bit, but other than that, I have not seen any other ones. I think you really have to prepare such a visit with reading the libretto and listening to the music. Good you got to see your friends! Time for bed now!
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DeleteI would love to see the "Marriage of Figaro." It must have been beautiful :)
DeleteThese comments are so funny sometimes. I wonder where they go to . . . !!
I even saw it once in Italian, in Hamburg, and enjoyed that one too. Although I did not understand the language, but I had read it and seen it in German before so it did not matter.
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