Have you ever seen live opera?

This can be magical, but very expensive.

I once saw La Traviata in Rome.

It can be dreadful too. Othello in Covert Garden, I walked out. The chorus were better than the principals

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Ghostinthemachine · M

I saw an Opera in Vienna for $2
It brought me to tears

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@Ghostinthemachine Yes, it does not always cost a lot of money.
But is usually savagely over priced.

Ghostinthemachine · M

@SW-User Yes, I used to have season tickets, and it was more expensive

Btw, can you guess where the three largest Opera Houses are?

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@Ghostinthemachine no, but what did you see in Vienna? Mozart??

Ghostinthemachine · M

@SW-User Offenbach

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@Ghostinthemachine I’ve seen Orpheus in the Underworld. But is that opera. Once in London and once in Peterborough.

Ghostinthemachine · M

@SW-User It was the Merry Widow, which is considered an Operetta

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@Ghostinthemachine That brings back memories, for all the wrong reasons. I saw that with someone who married her teacher!

Ghostinthemachine · M

@SW-User Were you the teacher?

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@Ghostinthemachine No, she had been in the sixth form with me. He was ‘teaching’ her, and had been my form tutor at thirteen.
Sounds like a Pinter play!

Ghostinthemachine · M

@SW-User you should write it!

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@Ghostinthemachine They married, but being much older he died when she was still relatively young. So she became ‘The Merry Widow’ herself!