What better to do on a rainy Friday night?
So the fetching Ms. Rachel had Friday off, and I managed to get myself off work ;), so we were planning on doing something fun and spending the day together. So I have been wanting to go to the Opera and discovered the NExt program they run. They sell you tickets for the Opera for $20 ea but you and all your guests have to be full time college students with valid IDs. So luckly for me Rachel wanted to go and at the last minute tickets for this day appeared and I got them the day before and yay we went.
We saw Il Trovatore by Giuseppe Verdi. It was an amazing show, but more on that later. First off the opera house itself is amazing on the inside. The decor is amazing and the accoustics are just stunning. You could hear people cough in basically the entire place they echoed so well. The crowd was an intresting mix of people, mostly towards the elderly end though. Our seats were very good also. I can't exactly tell which section on the main row we were in, but we were either in Mainfloor section 2 or 3 meaning if it was section 2 those tickets normally were $149 each or $117 each for section 3. Now I'm pretty sure it was probably section 3, but it is also very possible that it was section 2. Not bad for $20 ea.
The opera itself was amazing. Now I have never seen an opera before, so this was a new experience for me. The opera was sung in Italian and they then projected the subtitles in English right above the stage. The singing was breath taking, the singers really do have amazing voices. Add in the amazing playing that the Orchestra provides and you have a great combination. I wont go on too much about the details of the actual show but you can read about it HERE if you like. What I will say though is this, if movie writers and directors would write a show of the quality of the Opera we saw then we would have a much better set of movies going around. Now I don't even know if the specific Opera we saw was even one of the better ones out there, but the story and the execution of tell the story really struck me as being of a very very high quality.
After the show we waiting quite a while for my car from Valet but it was worth the wait in the end. Then we decided to stop for dinner and we went to one of my favorite restraunts, the TWISTED SPOKE. The Twisted Spoke is not exactly a dressy place so I thought eating in a suit and tie there was fun. I enjoyed my favorite, a foot long twisted weiner with a super sour puckerpuss (vodka with fresh squeezed lemonade with a bit of pucker). Rachel enjoyed an order of Jalepeno poppers and a fine 2006 vintage water. It was a yummy dinner, I just wish I had some quarters so I could have gotten adult novelties from the bathroom vending machine.
All in all it was a great evening. I highly recommend to all you college students reading, go check out an opera at the LYRIC OPERA when you are in town and get a chance.
We saw Il Trovatore by Giuseppe Verdi. It was an amazing show, but more on that later. First off the opera house itself is amazing on the inside. The decor is amazing and the accoustics are just stunning. You could hear people cough in basically the entire place they echoed so well. The crowd was an intresting mix of people, mostly towards the elderly end though. Our seats were very good also. I can't exactly tell which section on the main row we were in, but we were either in Mainfloor section 2 or 3 meaning if it was section 2 those tickets normally were $149 each or $117 each for section 3. Now I'm pretty sure it was probably section 3, but it is also very possible that it was section 2. Not bad for $20 ea.
The opera itself was amazing. Now I have never seen an opera before, so this was a new experience for me. The opera was sung in Italian and they then projected the subtitles in English right above the stage. The singing was breath taking, the singers really do have amazing voices. Add in the amazing playing that the Orchestra provides and you have a great combination. I wont go on too much about the details of the actual show but you can read about it HERE if you like. What I will say though is this, if movie writers and directors would write a show of the quality of the Opera we saw then we would have a much better set of movies going around. Now I don't even know if the specific Opera we saw was even one of the better ones out there, but the story and the execution of tell the story really struck me as being of a very very high quality.
After the show we waiting quite a while for my car from Valet but it was worth the wait in the end. Then we decided to stop for dinner and we went to one of my favorite restraunts, the TWISTED SPOKE. The Twisted Spoke is not exactly a dressy place so I thought eating in a suit and tie there was fun. I enjoyed my favorite, a foot long twisted weiner with a super sour puckerpuss (vodka with fresh squeezed lemonade with a bit of pucker). Rachel enjoyed an order of Jalepeno poppers and a fine 2006 vintage water. It was a yummy dinner, I just wish I had some quarters so I could have gotten adult novelties from the bathroom vending machine.
All in all it was a great evening. I highly recommend to all you college students reading, go check out an opera at the LYRIC OPERA when you are in town and get a chance.