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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ArishMell · 70-79, M

Only once, so far at least. Puccini's [i]Madame Butterfly,[/i] performed by the Ukrainian National Opera on a UK tour earlier this year.

It was very good and very enjoyable, too! Nor was it particularly expensive - about £35 if I recall correctly, not much more than The Searchers' concert in the same venue, Weymouth Pavilion, a few weeks previously.

As the libretto is in Italian, to help us follow the story, a screen on the proscenium arch showed the songs in English, line by line.