Good Morning All,
This weekday feature is for Juicers who are are on the road, traveling, or just want to share a little bit of their world via stories and pictures. So many of us rise each morning, eager for something beautiful, inspiring, amazing, subtle, of note, and our community delivers – a view into their world, whether they’re far away or close to home – pictures with a story, with context, with meaning, sometimes just beauty. By concentrating travel updates and tips here, it’s easier for all of us to keep up or find them later.
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Have a wonderful day, and enjoy the pictures!
Have you seen Aida?
I saw it (for the second time) Sunday, with the Washington National Opera, at Kennedy Center, here in D.C. (we have season tickets to the Washington National Opera and great seats).
This production was different, but let me assure you that the fabrics, staging, singing, and orchestra/conductor were fantastic! I wasn’t a big fan of the quasi-1940’s uniforms and related accoutremants, but for the most part, the costumes were of wonderful fabrics and patterns, and I dig that, big-time! For me, opera is as much about the rest of the show as the voices and music. Without them, a production fails, but it’s the mastery of the rest that truly make L’Opera – “the big show”.
Production-wise, the mothers-and-children scene was a great example of making a story of old work with some relevant-to-modern-audience references: it played to a nicer self-story of the relationship between captor and prisoner, mistress and slave. And it was new – this scene and all it conveyed were not original to the opera. In place of the opera’s traditional elephantine and equine visuals, we saw mothers (and, I’m sure, nannies) encouraging and being challenged by their sons/charges. “It was neat” seems trite – this was a really amazing, coherent re-interpretation. And the music and signing were just amazing. I still cannot believe what I heard, that humans can create such magic with their voices, even if it was a Sunday matinee performance.
This was right before the show began, and the curtain rose….
So, I bet you don’t know what’s coming Thursday or Friday. Let me assure you, you know NOTHING! about what’s to come – bats and mines, memories and travels. It will be glorious!
Did I mention the (long-awaited!) return of otmar? You know I did!
And to begin that climb to Mt Awesome, more from…