Der Nußknaker
Kebap: €3
Drink: €1.60
Total Price of Nußknacker: €7.90
Beer: €3.50
Well, I worked for 6 hours, and afterwards I ran to the Staatsoper to see Der Nußknaker. I saw Kate there, so we sat in line together and played Mario Kart on my computer the whole time. It was fun. We went in and got spots right in the center of the Parterre! Sweet! Even though she had to sort of bitch at this woman for impinging on our reserved spots, she refused to move, and really it all ended up being OK (we both had enough room and everything) but it's still kind of crappy to come less than an hour before curtain and stand in a spot with people who had waited for 3 hours.
The ballet was very good, although there was a VERY different story....I won't go into specifics, but it involves the kidnapping of the royal princess, who uses her recent gift of the Nutcracker (which doesn't come to life or anything) as a tracking device, Hänsel & Gretel style, by breaking off pieces of it in each country her abductors drive through, which allow the prince to locate her with ease. As far as I can tell this new story is a recent person's "new adaptation/interpretation" of the Nutcracker, but at first I thought this was the original and we'd just gotten it wrong all of these years, which didn't make much sense to me. The dancing was good; far better than the other Tchaikovsky ballets I've seen there, probably owing to the fact that the choreography was far, far better: still very traditional, but better. (this was later confirmed by Gretchen, who had far better things to say about it when she saw it) After the ballet I went home briefly and then met everyone at the "Communist party" party, which conveniently was at "eat drink dance" social club, which is just down my street less than a block. It was a fun party: the theme was "communist," which basically meant everyone was to wear red or black. Having only black, I wore only black. People looked really good, and a lot of people got pretty decked out since this was the closest thing to an official send-off that IES was going to have (I was really surprised that there was no official good-bye dinner/talk/event where we could say all our good-byes, etc. oh well. Hopefully I'll see everyone that I want to say good-bye to before they leave. (admittedly, many of them live in my building, so it won't be that hard....) Anyway the party was great fun, and I'm glad that I was convinced to go! It was just great....I think it was then when I realized just how much I'm going to miss all of these people.
Drink: €1.60
Total Price of Nußknacker: €7.90
Beer: €3.50
Well, I worked for 6 hours, and afterwards I ran to the Staatsoper to see Der Nußknaker. I saw Kate there, so we sat in line together and played Mario Kart on my computer the whole time. It was fun. We went in and got spots right in the center of the Parterre! Sweet! Even though she had to sort of bitch at this woman for impinging on our reserved spots, she refused to move, and really it all ended up being OK (we both had enough room and everything) but it's still kind of crappy to come less than an hour before curtain and stand in a spot with people who had waited for 3 hours.
The ballet was very good, although there was a VERY different story....I won't go into specifics, but it involves the kidnapping of the royal princess, who uses her recent gift of the Nutcracker (which doesn't come to life or anything) as a tracking device, Hänsel & Gretel style, by breaking off pieces of it in each country her abductors drive through, which allow the prince to locate her with ease. As far as I can tell this new story is a recent person's "new adaptation/interpretation" of the Nutcracker, but at first I thought this was the original and we'd just gotten it wrong all of these years, which didn't make much sense to me. The dancing was good; far better than the other Tchaikovsky ballets I've seen there, probably owing to the fact that the choreography was far, far better: still very traditional, but better. (this was later confirmed by Gretchen, who had far better things to say about it when she saw it) After the ballet I went home briefly and then met everyone at the "Communist party" party, which conveniently was at "eat drink dance" social club, which is just down my street less than a block. It was a fun party: the theme was "communist," which basically meant everyone was to wear red or black. Having only black, I wore only black. People looked really good, and a lot of people got pretty decked out since this was the closest thing to an official send-off that IES was going to have (I was really surprised that there was no official good-bye dinner/talk/event where we could say all our good-byes, etc. oh well. Hopefully I'll see everyone that I want to say good-bye to before they leave. (admittedly, many of them live in my building, so it won't be that hard....) Anyway the party was great fun, and I'm glad that I was convinced to go! It was just great....I think it was then when I realized just how much I'm going to miss all of these people.
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