Hi, my name is Olga and I am an addict.
It all started a year and a half ago when I went to my first opera, Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin.
The posters plastered all over the Paris metro made this classic of Russian literature look more exciting than Marvel’s latest, and I had one of those J Crew bridesmaid dresses that I didn’t have the occasion to wear in four years. “I’ll probably be too fat for it by the time anyone I know gets (re)married,” - I mused while hesitating dropping 162€ on the cheapest ticket that remained on sale. Long story short, despite Anna Netrebko not being quite like the Tatiana Larina I imagined back in high school, I had a lovely evening and got instantly hooked on the opera genre.
Last night I attended my 13th opera (more on it another day), where a friend of mine suggested that I start posting reviews of the operas that I see. “What an awesome idea!! Why haven’t you proposed it before?!” “I did. Twice. You had this exact same reaction the previous times.” Damn, my memory must be even worse than I thought… Without further ado I headed home and added a new blog page to my website. The title was an obvious choice: yesterday’s performance made me realize that so far the operas I have enjoyed the most were, in fact, comedies. So here is to many more LOLs at the Opera :-)
XOXO
Olga