A friend has a friend who is in this Tchaikovsky opera and got two free tickets to the final dress rehearsal so we went. There is an outdoor stage in Holland Park that does an opera series. It was a good opera...I definitely got wrapped up in the emotion of it. The costumes were Russian winter garb while we were in the middle of our great heat wave, so you had to feel bad for the performers! We met a deputy orchestra player (he plays when one of the regulars needs a night off) who happened to be Russian so he explained some of the historical references in it which was nice. Queen of Spades is no longer playing unfortunately.
Saturday, August 19, 2006
Queen of Spades Opera - Holland Park
A friend has a friend who is in this Tchaikovsky opera and got two free tickets to the final dress rehearsal so we went. There is an outdoor stage in Holland Park that does an opera series. It was a good opera...I definitely got wrapped up in the emotion of it. The costumes were Russian winter garb while we were in the middle of our great heat wave, so you had to feel bad for the performers! We met a deputy orchestra player (he plays when one of the regulars needs a night off) who happened to be Russian so he explained some of the historical references in it which was nice. Queen of Spades is no longer playing unfortunately.
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