Just awesome.
“L’Heure espagnole” and “Gianni Schicchi”
Last night Dani and I went to the Royal Opera thanks to the glories of Student Standby tickets: £10 each!
It’s luck of the draw for where you end up sitting. Last night we were in the nose-bleeds, but at the ROH, even there you get a perfect view and no acoustic trade-off that my untrained ears can notice. We’ve previously managed to get seats that would ordinarily cost hundreds of pounds.
We saw two one-act comedic operettas: Ravel‘s L’Heure espagnole (the poor-quality photo above is from that – Look! Giant breasts at the opera!) and Puccini‘s Gianni Schicchi. Freakin’ hilarious.