A very good day
29 April 2005 23:13![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
naturallypixieToday was a wonderful day. Bart worked and I attended an seminar with four speakers, all in English! And, they were all interesting to boot.
We have just arrived home form an outing to a very beautiful theater, Teatro di San Carlo. It is the oldest theater Naples and was renovated a couple of hundred years ago to connect directly to the royal palace that is directly across the piazza, so that the royalty could go directly from their chambers to the their seats. We saw an odd concert presenting Romeo and Juliet, mostly through orchestral music, but also with a chours and three soloists, all singing in French with Italian supertitles imposed on a screen overhead. It was very odd in that there was about four minutes of music then the chorus begins to sing and we are already at the balcony scene! Then there is about another ten minutes of music and then they are singing about what a great party it was and the Italian stars. Then there was forty more minutes of music and all of a sudden, Juliet is dead! Nothing in between. The singing goes from what a great party to Juliet is dead. Odd. Then more music and Romeo comes in and he is all pissed and is a bartone now (his solo was a tenor in the balcony bit). And now Romeo is dead, but they keep playing music and the chorus is singing about the poor dead youth. I must say that the percussionists in the back playing the tambourine, cymbals, a metal disc and a triangle were very entertaining and I enjoyed them very much! While one might thing that the best part about the evening was the tasty gelato on the way home, one would be wrong. The best part of the evening was that it was free. The man whose lab I work in has season tickets and he couldn't go this evening, so he gave the tickets to us!! Yay Lorenzo.
We are going to Rome tomorrow! First thing...the Colosseum!!!
We have just arrived home form an outing to a very beautiful theater, Teatro di San Carlo. It is the oldest theater Naples and was renovated a couple of hundred years ago to connect directly to the royal palace that is directly across the piazza, so that the royalty could go directly from their chambers to the their seats. We saw an odd concert presenting Romeo and Juliet, mostly through orchestral music, but also with a chours and three soloists, all singing in French with Italian supertitles imposed on a screen overhead. It was very odd in that there was about four minutes of music then the chorus begins to sing and we are already at the balcony scene! Then there is about another ten minutes of music and then they are singing about what a great party it was and the Italian stars. Then there was forty more minutes of music and all of a sudden, Juliet is dead! Nothing in between. The singing goes from what a great party to Juliet is dead. Odd. Then more music and Romeo comes in and he is all pissed and is a bartone now (his solo was a tenor in the balcony bit). And now Romeo is dead, but they keep playing music and the chorus is singing about the poor dead youth. I must say that the percussionists in the back playing the tambourine, cymbals, a metal disc and a triangle were very entertaining and I enjoyed them very much! While one might thing that the best part about the evening was the tasty gelato on the way home, one would be wrong. The best part of the evening was that it was free. The man whose lab I work in has season tickets and he couldn't go this evening, so he gave the tickets to us!! Yay Lorenzo.
We are going to Rome tomorrow! First thing...the Colosseum!!!
