BSO Opening Night

Good Luck! Be Careful!

verdi, dan, i love you to peices, but verdi?

i cancelled my subscription to the opera because it had two verdi operas.

anyways, good luck.

Post-show reports? Did you rock or not?

Anthony's such a snob!

how did it go Dan?

The entire audience almost murdered someone because of a CELL PHONE. HAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Frühbeck de Burgos had to restart the piece twice because of it. I thought he was going to levitate into the first balcony and murder the person. (Interestingly enough, Channel 7 news had an entire story on the irritations of cell phone use in concert venues (and how NYC is proposing to fine people for it) where they interviewed people and got camera time of the various messages telling people to turn their cell phones off before the concert started. I SMELL A PLANT (and I'm not talking shrubbery)).

The performance itself went fairly well. The contralto soloist (yes, a REAL contralto) forgot how the piece went at one point and the Soprano (capitalization intentional) had on a dress that featured BOOBS to the point where you stopped paying attention to how good she was (and we were behind her!). The chorus rocked, but there's a fugue at the end that I still don't know where I mostly sang "Lalalalalalalalalalala DOMINE, DOMINE, LIBERA ME DOMINE lalalalallalalalala". Overall, I'd say it was a solid B.

(Did I mention the Soprano was all about her tits? Her bustier was so ridiculous, she might as well have come out there with two small men cupping and presenting them to the audience for inspection.)