Who Knew we needed a Little Island?
Bruce got the tickets for the Marriage of Figaro show at Little Island weeks and weeks ago. He asked if we wanted to come and I said yes immediately. There was no investigations or research. Nothing was looked into. I had a vague notion it was an opera... which made sense since Nardo is a big fan of the opera.
Nonetheless, I ran out of time and failed to deploy my Opera Best Practices checklist. This is where I read about said opera in advance. Otherwise, as I have discovered the hard way, most operas are completely incomprehensible. Even if they were in English, I'd still be tragically lost.
Which feels even more tragic when it's hour two into a three or four hour show and very likely the heroine is out in the garden or up in the attic or out of a boat impersonating the other heroine while meanwhile the villain is in the mix and the hero is going to misunderstand the whole scene and probably there will be a duel in which either the wrong person will die or someone will become entombed underground. And die. After their solo.
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| It was a mad cap opera! https://www.mymotherlode.com/entertainment/3418573/anthony-roth-costanzo-sings-7-roles-in-madcap-marriage-of-figaro-at-new-yorks-little-island.html |
Good news! The performance had a lot going on plus there were trampolines and to the best of my knowledge, no one died. More good news, it's in a theater looking out over the evening sky over the Hudson River beneath a hovering waning gibbous moon so it was hard to bemoan much of anything. More more good news... the talent of especially the lead was fairly breathtaking.
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| Waning Gibbous Moon above the stage and the Hudson and lots of other shit going on upriver. |
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| https://imgs.6sqft.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/20100339/Aerial-View-of-Little-Island-from-the-Standard.-Credit-Michael-Grimm.jpg |
After that, we walked over and checked out the hundred elephants marching up 9th Avenue:
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| elephants up and down 9th Avenue! |
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