now i’m just back from the dinner that followed the opera … the opera was sharp really sharp and cool … black & white … brown & white … i guess you’d say simple & minimal with very graceful efffects … les dialogues des carmelites … my first visit to the lyric opera in chicago …our seats were main floor back a ways on the left under the balconies … if i tipped my head just right i could get the faces in focus through one of my trifocal ranges … but how does one take in an opera … watching the stage … reading the translated text up top … & listening most of all listeniing to voices and instruments … there must be an art to taking it all in somehow, too … during intermissioon somebody lifted my program … the lady next to me was a heavy smoker … pretty close quarters for three hours … i think the sound was a bit weak in my section of the room … or maybe it was just my ipod-wrecked ears … but it was still quite hearable

i wonder how many actual carmelites were in the audience … two for certain … (well, compared to these 18th century nuns, i am a weak 21st century carmelite … but i am an actual one) … a good way to begin the celebration of our 800th year … i’m not sure what to say about the work itself … i had the experience … it was … well … see this

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