janvier 08, 2005
A night at the opera
TulipGirl and I caught La Bohème tonight, our first opera of the season. The sets were good and the orchestra was great. Unfortunately, the usual Mimi was out of town and a weak understudy filled in -- perhaps the company hired an actual consumption victim. That would score some serious vérité points.
This is a mildly unsettling Mick Jagger-inspired self-portrait of TulipGirl and me.
During the death of Mimi, TulipGirl leaned over and said, "Mimi and Musetta are the archetypical virgin and whore." You have to love a girl who'll whisper that to you in the dark.
The name of the brunette Musetta escapes me, but she's getting known in Western Europe. We'll lose her eventually.
Roger and Diane McMurrin -- he's the conductor of the Kiev Symphony Orchestra and one of the founders of the first Presbyterian church in Kiev after the fall of Communism (there are now four.)
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