Today Ismerie and I went to see the opera Il Barbiere di Siviglia (The Barber of Seville). It was the opening night of a new production of this opera. A lot of people in the audience were dressed in black tie and I even saw one guy in white tie and tails. This must be because of the opening night gala that took place the same night.
Ismerie, an opera expert herself, said that the quality of singers was very high. She was especially looking forward to hear Juan Diego Florez who is an astounding tenor. Indeed he and the other singers were very good. If they were paid by the word, they'd make a lot of money in this opera! After many arias the applause just kept going and going with lots of "bravos".
The stage set was quite plain but they did have a live donkey. At the end of Act 1, I am still not sure what was up with the huge piece of iron slowly coming down on top of a cart full of pumpkins and crashing it to pieces. Are they saying goodbye to the Halloween season?
