Opera!

[lesbiassparrow]

Tonight for my birthday I am off to see one of my unashamed melodramatic pleasures at the opera: La Traviata.  I don't care how cliched it is, how improbable Violetta singing for ages while dying of consumption is, I love it all.  Plus there will be lovely costumes and a great set.  There had better be no plastic, though.  I will be very annoyed if there is plastic of any sort. 

Then tomorrow (the scheduling is insane but I had to change one set of tickets because I will be gone on travels next week) I will be seeing LA opera's new opera Grendal. I am not so sure about the music for this one as I am not sold on the little of the composer I have heard, but the sets look amazing.  The production is by Julie Traynor who did the stage design for The Lion King and direct Titus.  I am not really sure what to expect but I am really looking forward to it.

If I didn't have so much to do before leaving on travels then I would be very happy. As it is I am repressing the knowledge of the work by doing the mindless stuff in front of the telly and watching X-Men 2. Because you can never have enough Wolverine.

Comments

[jonquil.livejournal.com]

I will be very annoyed if there is plastic of any sort.

Now I am mystified. Violetta's cleavage is surgically enhanced (scarcely necessary for your typical operatic soprano)? Her lovers put her services on American Express? She spends the second act assembling furniture from Ikea?

[lesbiassparrow.livejournal.com]

If it were a Wilson production, the leads would walk very slowly with strange hand gestures across plastic matting. Or lie down and sing with hand gestures. And there would be something plasticty that drops from the ceilng. That man has one idea and he's working it hard.

But I like your idea of the Ikea furniture. It would symbolise her desire for bougeouis acceptance. And you know that someone somewhere is currently drafting a production with this idea.

[cill-ros.livejournal.com]

[lesbiassparrow.livejournal.com]

Lovely cake! Thank you. :)

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Happy Birthday!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[lesbiassparrow.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I will celebrate by seeing tragic love on stage.

[ehab-it.livejournal.com]

Happy Birthday! Great time of year to be born :).

I have to remember when I get home to send you a very special operatic song in honor of your birthday....sadly I don't have it with me.

And just for you an oldie but goodie icon.

[lesbiassparrow.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

And I sniffle at the barrel of Lee's post-modern, anti-capitalist love. Oh, who of us can ever be filled by what we seek?

[jonquil.livejournal.com]

Oh, for pity's sake, I missed the most important part of the posting.

Happy, happy, happy birthday and many happy returns!

[lesbiassparrow.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[alexandral.livejournal.com]

I love La Traviata! Have a great time! You deserve it!!!

[lovinlorne.livejournal.com]

Happy Birthday! I hope you had a good time tonight, and that you'll have an even better time tomorrow.