Stiffelio

Nothing interesting in the afternoon......in the afternoon I went to the Staatsoper to stand in line for Stiffelio. I met Mike there, and had a nice conversation with him and Caitlin, who was also in line with us. We also met up with Kate, who was ahead of us. Both of them strangely enough ended up standing in different sections from us: Caitlin in the Parterre and Kate in the Balkon. Anyway, the opera was OK.....nice early Verdi cheese, but frankly the plot was just a little strange. The music was nice and simple and pretty, and although Jess was surprised that I liked it as much I did, I just enjoyed on basically a completely superficial level......I know there wasn't a lot of significance in what was going on.....Jose Cura sang the title role, and he was OK.....as Mike said, he has two techniques: loud and louder. Hui He, who sang the role of....oh what's-her-name.....Stiffelio's wife.....anyway she was good. And the older baritone who played the father....he was very good. Everything was good.