I'd never been to a professional opera before, and it's funny that I finally got to see one in Thessaloniki, NOT Cleveland! We looked up the storyline for Verdi's La Traviata before we went because 1. it was in Italian and 2. There were Greek subtitles (they project the translation above the stage). It was SO COOL how much we could pick up from just the acting though! I loved remembering details from Wikipedia's summary by the cast's simple facial expressions. It was a great experience! (Though a little pricey comapred to those aweomse $5 student tickets to the cleveland orchestra. =)
The Theatre
Sitting inside, waiting
Daniella, Jen, Me. About as dressed up as we ever get.
A shot of a photo of the play. This is Violetta, the main character, who falls in love, breaks up with the man she loves for the sake of his family, and then eventually dies in his arms.I think that from the entire opera, I liked the clapping at the end when the WHOLE cast comes out to take bows. Kinda like bloopers, when you realize these are normal people just doing their job, but that they're FANTASTIC at what they do.
3 comments:
have you ever seen pretty woman??? there's scene where richard gere is basically like "people either LOVE opera or they don't"... which are you???
woow. opera! i still have yet to go to one.
btw.. i watched "my big fat greek wedding" and totally thought of you. :)
bobae.. i'm soooooo jealous.. scuba diving, opera... and just the fact that you're in greece...
can't wait 'til you get back though.... kaylee has gotten so big!! love ya, hahnee
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