Saturday, January 2, 2010

Les Contes d'Hoffman

January 2 (Saturday)

It is bitter, bitter cold out, so I arrange for a car service to take us to our second opera in one week. This proves to be a wonderful decision and “Jessie” picks us up at our door promptly at 6:45 and then picks up Beth. Beth has arranged for a standing room only ticket so that she can see an opera she has always wanted to see. Once again she takes the lemons and makes lemonade. She manages to even sweeten the mix by finding a balcony ticket for sale when we get there and selling her standing room ticket. We all enjoy the new production of this psychologically and intellectually interesting opera with its striking visual illusions to Freud, Kafka and Fellini. “Jessie” merits her tip by having the warm car ready for us at the end of the performance.

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