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Dec. 12th, 2006 10:43 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rimturseWe went to see a Carmina Burana show last night. Before that the choir and orchestra played 30 minutes of Guiseppe Verdi. The show was cool and colourful. After the soloist (two men and one woman), the orchestra and the conductor had taken their places, the Carmina Burana started in a dark hall with the choir walking in, in two long lines, all dressed in brown monk and nun costumes and each holding a flaming torch. They were accompanied by the tolling of a church bell and a deep drum only. Following them were two men on stylts dressed up as good/bad Venetian style carnival birds. And then came loads of dancers dressed up in medieval/carnival style clothes enacting the lyrics. There were some parts in the middle that I had forgotten were part of the Carmina Burana and which I wasn't so keen on, but my overall impression was very good.
Negative things: the chairs! You could chose between 5-6 seating prices and we had picked a middle category- and these were not cheap either. The chairs were a disgrace, I think of them as glorified foot stools. Small and uncomfortable with so little space around them that I felt this "I've got to jump" vertigo everytime I looked down - and I could hardly move out of fear of kicking the woman in front of me in the head - and I'm small, imagine what it would have been like for bigger people. We first sat for about 1 hour, luckily there was a 30 minute break after that. When we got up my tailbone was aching and my back cracking. After the break, we managed to find seats with slightly more space for our legs, but with the same chairs - my back is still aching today and I usually don't have any back problems.
Oh, and dear audience, you have 1 1/2 hour to find your seats - and on top of that you are given an extra 5 minutes, which you weren't aware of, yet you come late. Not only do you come late, you dilly-dally walk to your seat. In fact, if you were walking any slower, you would have been going backwards! And I'm not talking about just 2-3 people here, more like somewhere between 50-100.
Negative things: the chairs! You could chose between 5-6 seating prices and we had picked a middle category- and these were not cheap either. The chairs were a disgrace, I think of them as glorified foot stools. Small and uncomfortable with so little space around them that I felt this "I've got to jump" vertigo everytime I looked down - and I could hardly move out of fear of kicking the woman in front of me in the head - and I'm small, imagine what it would have been like for bigger people. We first sat for about 1 hour, luckily there was a 30 minute break after that. When we got up my tailbone was aching and my back cracking. After the break, we managed to find seats with slightly more space for our legs, but with the same chairs - my back is still aching today and I usually don't have any back problems.
Oh, and dear audience, you have 1 1/2 hour to find your seats - and on top of that you are given an extra 5 minutes, which you weren't aware of, yet you come late. Not only do you come late, you dilly-dally walk to your seat. In fact, if you were walking any slower, you would have been going backwards! And I'm not talking about just 2-3 people here, more like somewhere between 50-100.
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Date: 2006-12-12 10:08 am (UTC)