Night at the Opera

I went to the Opera the other night, my first time going, and it was quite an intresting experince though I did enjoy it more then I thought I would. I was looking forward to going, and in general I do love live theater, but needless to say the acutal opera, really is not the way they often portray opera as being in movies or on TV, and indeed for anyone whom has caught an Opera on TV on some local or public access channel as they often play here, to see it in person is nothing like that. I tried watching the opera on TV and it is dreadful, but if you go in person it is a completely different experince.

First of all the Opera House, was beautiful. It was a tremendous building that was a labyrinth of stairs and halls, and each level looked just like the next, and it was a circular building So each different level went around within a circle, so there would be stairs that came down upon both the left and right side, but all ended up in the same place. We were sitting in the cheapest seats possible, in the rear balcony, which was the higest level they have, at the very back, but acutally the seats did have a good view of the stage. Though the seats themselves were a bit uncomftrable, they were very narrow and just packed poeple in, but luckily it was not sold out, so our row was nearly empty.

The preformace I went to see was The Magic Flute, by Mozart, and I have to say the music, was really amazing, Mozart is becoming one of my faveorit composors from what I heard from him so far, and I loved the music for the opera. It was really good. Also the set, and effects of Opera, are just unbelivable. They do some amazing things on stage to really set the mood. They only used like a few basic props that they could reagange in varrious different ways to produce a completely knew setting everytime, and I love thie use of lighting as well for the effects. I really liked the thunder and lignting they used and one of my faveorite parts of the show, was at the very begining this serpant they had.

The show itself was interesting, it was quite entertaining. It was humurus, and yet at the same time a bit disturbing and cultish, and I have to say a touch masogonistic, but it was full of all sorts of symbolisim, and well it acutaly went into aspects of Free Masonory.

Though one thing I have to say, I did quite enjoy it, but I was not really emotonaly moved by it, it just did not speak to me in that way, and I know what is one of the things people usually say about the opera, is that it is suppose to really take you through the emotions, and move you, but I did not really feel that. I do not know if it was just that particuarly perfomace that did not speak to me or perhaps Opera itself just does not strike me in that way, but I could not get myself to really by captivated by the characters or to feel with them.

And of course my faveorite characters were the ones that were suppose to be the villans, I loved the Queen of the Night, and her three servants. 

It was a good sbow.

8:12 AM - 10/24/2007 - post comment

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