Opera ... not my favorite, at all, but my wife loves them. So, I get tickets ($$) to see Turandot, a Puccini with a very famous (and moving) aria. Impressions:
1. I'm still not really a fan. Even with subtitles, I couldn't really figure out the plot, something about a princess and a foreigner (who was dressed like Harrison Ford in Raiders of the Lost Ark).
2. The production was rather amazing, maybe a hundred players total, a lot of costumes and moving parts and of course a full symphony in the pit.
3. My wife said she was impressed, which is good, and liked the singing. She liked it so much I bought season tickets (which is 6 performances).
4. The venue was unexpectedly impressive, the Cobb Energy Center, located out near Truist Park in the Cumberland area. I had no idea it existed or was so large.
5. The audience was dressed up, mostly, a lot of men in tuxes, women in evening gowns.
6. There were two intermmissions which made it fairly bearable, my previous experience was Die Zauberflote and it was WAY too long.
7. The genre is still weird, to me, I'm used to movies and books of course. But, it was impressive.
