About yesterday.
May. 5th, 2003 08:04 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
nirix5It was absolutely gorgeous outside, so I spent the afternoon (logically enough) inside, watching Verdi’s Macbeth. I love Macbeth- it’s probably my favorite Shakespeare play ever- and the singing, staging, costumes, and adaptation were all phenomenal. But I’d forgotten, in the few years since I’ve studied it, what a GIANT PAIN IN THE ASS it is to sit through. The story is great, but it just goes on, and on, and on… and Verdi is not known for writing short operas. So by the end of it my head was pounding and I thought I was going to puke.
But it was a wonderful opera. I really enjoyed it. Maybe Mrs. Orth will let me try one of Lady M’s arias, although I doubt it.
The best part was when the soldiers rush on stage to follow Macduff and Malcolm into battle. The latter two pull their swords, and the soldiers, making that same grand “wow lookit I can handle a sword really well” gesture, pull out little five-inch daggers. I almost burst out laughing, it was so absurd. You’re going to fight a war with that thing, buddy? Right. Good luck with that.
Anyway, told Mater about the headache. She says I might need glasses or something. I don’t know. I can see really well but I can’t sit through anything longer than an hour without getting a headache. We’ll see, I guess. Glasses are waaaaay down on the list of priorities.
Oh yeah. I almost forgot. We got really good seats for this show, up in the Mezzanine. Right near Julia Ebner, Heather Mead and Matt Ashby (I think. I know Julia Ebner was there [she was behind us] but I’m not sure about the other two. Tom, ask her, please?) Then Mrs. Orth and I went to Friendly’s for ice cream, and Nikki Maw was working there. She didn’t recognize me though. It was very odd, running into people all over the place.
And some lady in the bathroom thought that I was one of the ballet dancers (they put a little ballet in the scene with the apparitions.) But that, I think, was the tiara talking. Heh. ;)
But it was a wonderful opera. I really enjoyed it. Maybe Mrs. Orth will let me try one of Lady M’s arias, although I doubt it.
The best part was when the soldiers rush on stage to follow Macduff and Malcolm into battle. The latter two pull their swords, and the soldiers, making that same grand “wow lookit I can handle a sword really well” gesture, pull out little five-inch daggers. I almost burst out laughing, it was so absurd. You’re going to fight a war with that thing, buddy? Right. Good luck with that.
Anyway, told Mater about the headache. She says I might need glasses or something. I don’t know. I can see really well but I can’t sit through anything longer than an hour without getting a headache. We’ll see, I guess. Glasses are waaaaay down on the list of priorities.
Oh yeah. I almost forgot. We got really good seats for this show, up in the Mezzanine. Right near Julia Ebner, Heather Mead and Matt Ashby (I think. I know Julia Ebner was there [she was behind us] but I’m not sure about the other two. Tom, ask her, please?) Then Mrs. Orth and I went to Friendly’s for ice cream, and Nikki Maw was working there. She didn’t recognize me though. It was very odd, running into people all over the place.
And some lady in the bathroom thought that I was one of the ballet dancers (they put a little ballet in the scene with the apparitions.) But that, I think, was the tiara talking. Heh. ;)
