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Jun. 17th, 2022 11:00 pmI saw a live oooooopera last weekend (La Traviata) and it was greeeeeeat and I'm so happy!
I feel like the last couple of years have made it so that although in principle I am reasonably comfortable going out and doing things now, in practice it is so easy now to just be like "eh, but maybe I shouldn't," especially if there's any impediment to Doing the Thing. So I did miss the local opera company doing Semele, earlier in the year, which now I regret. But Traviata is super special to me, and it was after the couple of weeks I was limiting us going places with lots of people so the kids could do a couple of academic-related-in-person things none of us wanted them to miss, and, and, well, it's Traviata! So I ditched the family and went downtown and watched it. It's a regional opera company so one doesn't expect the Met, but it was (I thought) really quite good! Live opera is sooooo greeeeat.
( Loved it all, but Violetta and the staging particularly I thought were great )
I feel like the last couple of years have made it so that although in principle I am reasonably comfortable going out and doing things now, in practice it is so easy now to just be like "eh, but maybe I shouldn't," especially if there's any impediment to Doing the Thing. So I did miss the local opera company doing Semele, earlier in the year, which now I regret. But Traviata is super special to me, and it was after the couple of weeks I was limiting us going places with lots of people so the kids could do a couple of academic-related-in-person things none of us wanted them to miss, and, and, well, it's Traviata! So I ditched the family and went downtown and watched it. It's a regional opera company so one doesn't expect the Met, but it was (I thought) really quite good! Live opera is sooooo greeeeat.
( Loved it all, but Violetta and the staging particularly I thought were great )
