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Manifestor_of_Light

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6. That's very cool!
Tue Aug 18, 2015, 07:14 PM
Aug 2015

Concerts are a great place to people watch. All my life I have gone to symphony, opera, chamber music, jazz and rock concerts, so I know it's fun. It's always nice to have somebody tell you you're beautiful! I don't know you, but I'm sure you are beautiful.

Opera is cool these days and understandable because of Surtitles. I wish I could get more people to understand that. The staging and productions are amazing.

My favorite story having to do with opera and being appreciated is as follows: Some years ago I was a soprano in the chorus of an amateur production of The Elixir of Love, by Donizetti. It was a lot of fun. One part of the story concerns a tenor and baritone fighting over the soprano, and the tenor wins. They ride off into the sunset happily ever after.

When we had a dress rehearsal, the director told us to put on lots of makeup. We didn't get any specific directions, and I had not been in any plays before then, so I slathered on the spackle, mascara, rouge and lipstick.

After the dress rehearsal, the good-looking gray haired baritone told me I was lovely.

After that I glowed for two weeks.

P.S. We want pictures of you in that dinner jacket, looking as cool as Humphrey Bogart, no doubt!!

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