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This year's Met Opera tickets have arrived! Anyone want dibs on anything?

Excluding Macbeth. I'm keeping that one and dragging Kane to it.

And Carmen. And Widow. Tandy and I have dibs on those.

The complete 2014-15 Metropolitan Opera lineup is as follows:
Le Nozze di Figaro, begins September 22*
La Bohème, begins September 23
Macbeth, begins September 24
Carmen, begins September 30
Die Zauberflöte, begins October 6
The Death of Klinghoffer, begins October 20*
Aida, begins October 30
Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, begins November 10
Il Barbiere di Siviglia, begins November 18
Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, begins December 2
La Traviata, begins December 11
Hansel and Gretel, begins December 18
The Merry Widow, begins December 31*
Les Contes d’Hoffmann, begins January 12
Iolanta/Bluebeard’s Castle, begins January 26*
Don Giovanni, begins February 4
La Donna del Lago, begins February 16*
Manon, begins March 9
Lucia di Lammermoor, begins March 16
Ernani, begins March 20
Don Carlo, begins March 30
Cavalleria Rusticana/Pagliacci, begins April 14*
Un Ballo in Maschera, begins April 23
The Rake’s Progress, begins May 1

* indicates new production

As you can see, many exceptional offerings this season. You've got your Barber of Seville, your Boheme, your Traviata, your Don Giovanni, your Marriage of Figaro. And then there's also a Julie Taymor puppet-version of Die Zauberflote? Domingo conducting Aida? Crazy shit!

Date: 2014-09-26 12:29 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] x-velocidad.livejournal.com
Wait, I would love to go to the opera.

I mean, I've never been, but I really want to wear a tuxedo and be fancy, so...

Date: 2014-09-26 02:07 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] x-adrienne.livejournal.com
Excellent! Wanting to be fancy is how I got into opera. Turns out it doesn't suck, which is a plus. (Well, some of them suck, but most of them are pretty good.) There's an ABC of opera for beginners- Aida, Boheme, Carmen. Are you interested in any of those?

Date: 2014-09-26 02:25 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] x-velocidad.livejournal.com
Uh.

Aida? Is that a good choice? Might as well start with A.

Date: 2014-09-26 02:32 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] x-adrienne.livejournal.com
Aida is a great choice. It's about an Egyptian soldier who's engaged to the pharoah's daughter but falls in love with a Nubian slave who was formerly a princess.

Date: 2014-09-26 03:31 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] x-velocidad.livejournal.com
Oh, yeah, I can get behind that. Gonna have to dust off my tuxedo. Or get a tuxedo to dust off.

Date: 2014-09-26 03:38 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] x-adrienne.livejournal.com
If you need a hand, I run a clothing shop in District X and do some designing. Megan Gwynn works there and knows how to tailor a tux. Or there's the resident clotheshorse, Julian Keller.

Date: 2014-09-26 03:39 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] x-velocidad.livejournal.com
Oh, thanks, but I'll probably rent. I mean, I know that they say about that, but tuxedos being expensive and all, I think that's my option.

Date: 2014-09-26 03:43 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] x-adrienne.livejournal.com
Makes sense. You should take someone with you, though.

Although, saying that, I haven't actually seen you around in person much yet. I don't know what your fashion sense is like. You might be another clotheshorse for all I know...

Date: 2014-09-26 03:44 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] x-velocidad.livejournal.com
I wouldn't go that far, but I certainly read enough GQ to pick out my own tuxedo.

Date: 2014-09-26 12:23 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] x-adrienne.livejournal.com
Unfortunate. But it's better than nothing, I suppose. Most men here only read Sports Illustrated.

....actually, almost no men here read that, either. I don't think the men here really read magazines now that I think about it.

Date: 2014-09-26 12:23 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] x-velocidad.livejournal.com
Well, Sports Illustrated is fun too. That swimsuit issue's a thing.

Date: 2014-09-26 01:51 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] x-daredevil.livejournal.com
I got a magazine subscription for my 18th birthday from someone.

Date: 2014-09-26 01:46 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] x-daredevil.livejournal.com
Adrienne is AWESOME at tuxes. I got one this year and already wore it twice.

Date: 2014-09-26 01:49 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] x-velocidad.livejournal.com
A ringing endorsement!

I am still on your little smell quest, by the way.

Date: 2014-09-26 01:51 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] x-daredevil.livejournal.com
it's good to have goals.

Date: 2014-09-26 01:59 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] x-velocidad.livejournal.com
Yeah, it's a nice change for me.

(That was a joke.)

(Kinda.)

Date: 2014-09-26 02:05 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] x-daredevil.livejournal.com
suuuuuuuuuure it is.

I have goals too, you know. today they involve sleeping until noon.

Date: 2014-09-26 02:20 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] x-velocidad.livejournal.com
Ambition is the enemy of success

Date: 2014-09-26 02:22 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] x-daredevil.livejournal.com
possibly, but I am definitely achieving my goal of not wearing pants

I should consider breakfast.

Date: 2014-09-26 02:09 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] x-otoxic.livejournal.com
I love Barber of Seville!

Image

Date: 2014-09-26 02:45 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] x-adrienne.livejournal.com
Haha I was thinking of this today. Also, Simpsons.

Date: 2014-09-26 02:53 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] x-adrienne.livejournal.com
Toreador, don't spit on the floor
Use a cuspidor, that's what it's for!

Date: 2014-09-26 02:13 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] x-daredevil.livejournal.com
I'm game to try it.

with ear plugs.

Date: 2014-09-26 04:53 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] x-dagger.livejournal.com
You are no fun.
Edited Date: 2014-09-26 04:54 am (UTC)

Date: 2014-09-26 01:46 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] x-daredevil.livejournal.com
I'm PLENTY of fun!

but isn't the opera really loud?

Date: 2014-09-26 08:30 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] x-invisiblegirl.livejournal.com
I really want to go to see Le Nozze di Figaro and La Traviata if anyone wants to come with me. Love those Operas.

Date: 2014-09-26 12:20 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] x-adrienne.livejournal.com
If Maddie or Tandy or your dad or other people don't want to go with you I'd be happy to. (But either way, you and I should go see Magic Flute.)

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