Last night we went to the opera.
The opera house here in Dresden is one of the most famous ones, and it's one of the most beautiful buildings I've ever been to. It has been destroyed and renovated a few times because of nature catastrophes, fires and bombing.
So... We had tickets to go next week, to the known opera: "The marriage of Figaro", but then because of the wedding party of Rob's best friend, which is taking place next week at the same day- we had to change the tickets.
I was very disappointed with changing the tickets coz it's known that it's very hard to get them- coz it's always so full. The woman at the desk told us that there's good seats for a modern opera on Friday, and a few other tickets to other operas- but not in very good places. We decided to go to the modern one on Friday (although I wasn't sure it's the best idea- to go to this opera as the first real opera in my life) and so we went yesterday.
It was awful! It was the worst thing I ever watched in my entire life!!! The set of the stage was ugly, the whole thing was too modern (who wants to watch regular people in an opera? isn't the whole idea that the characters are special???) the music hurt my ears and isn't worth enough to be called music, I thought it'll be in Italian coz the woman who sold us the tickets said it's an Italian story, but it was in German, and excuse me - that just sounded terrible! I actually understood a lot of the words (they screen the words on top of the stage) but still didn't get the story, and what I did understand was just so boring and so dry!!!
Of course we left in the middle. It was a waste of time.
Hence, I'll take advantage of the fact that this blog is online and write the following:
"La Grande Magia" - is the worst opera on earth, it's the worst show in town and a waste of your money!!!
That's it. Sometimes writing thing down is such a catharsis!!!
2 comments:
What shame! You should go to the cashier and tell her it was bad!
I like marriage of Figaro (have the CD). Hope you'll get to see it some day :)
yeah, modern opera can be pretty awful, especially for people who don't have a lot of experience in the field. But I heard that the building is beautiful, so at least you could pass the time watching the ceiling...
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