feeling better
wrog and I went to a swanky dinner and Aida. What with the frenzy of the previous week (wrog played piano for llachglin's grandfather's memorial service on Saturday) we both managed to completely and utterly forget that Sunday was our 11th wedding anniversary, until my mother-in-law called to wish us a happy anniversary. We both sort of went "Oh... *mumblemumble August tenth...* Oh! Right! Today! Thank you!" (luckily we BOTH forgot). So since tonight was our opera subscription night we decided we'd just pretend that we'd planned a nice pre-opera dinner as our celebration all along. Snrk.
The cast was pretty fabulous (and the silver cast looks great, based on the alternate Amneris), plus there was the added excitement of "huh, are the trumpets way up on the sides going to notice they're ahead of the beat before the dancers can't catch up?" If you're a fan of grand opera, they do it up pretty grand. No elephants, though. And if you go by ten mercer before or after, get the strawberry napoleon.
The cast was pretty fabulous (and the silver cast looks great, based on the alternate Amneris), plus there was the added excitement of "huh, are the trumpets way up on the sides going to notice they're ahead of the beat before the dancers can't catch up?" If you're a fan of grand opera, they do it up pretty grand. No elephants, though. And if you go by ten mercer before or after, get the strawberry napoleon.