Sydney Opperraaaa!!! House

eFriday was obviously a big day because after the zoo and blue mountains, the last thing on Friday to talk about was the Sydney opera House. Our group attended Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet symphony at 8pm sharp.

We all got dolled up and left early for the show because we were told they will lock you out if you are not there a certain amount of time before the show begins.

We're on the subway and we're starting to worry we're cutting it close. We already left three of the girls in our group because they weren't down in the lobby when we wanted to go.


Our luck got even worse when we hopped off the train and saw it was pouring rain outside and us girls were all in heels and dresses with a good 3/4 of a mile run to the opera house.
We started to run with our bags or whatever we had over our heads. We made it with a few minutes to spare before they rang the bell and asked everyone to take their seats. The picture to the right is what I saw entering the opera house room. The wood floor was beautiful and everyone was dressed very nice.

We were seated the second row facing the conductor, and with the symphony's backs to us. They were great seats that sat a little higher and we could see every expression on the conductor's face.

Our groups were a little separated but I sat next to Hallie, Kelsey and Aj but then, rushing in was Brooke, Olivia and Hannah who caught up with the group and made it inside before the doors closed.

The rest of the group was a row up and to the left from us. When the symphony started, myself and a couple others fell in love with the performance. I've never had the musical talents like my mom and brother, but I can appreciate the great details that went into the music we heard that night. Our conductor James Gaffigan is one of the most outstanding young American conductors working today and that night he made his Australian debut.

The lead violinist is a young guy named, Sergey Khachatryan, who is one of the best in the world having been the youngest to win an international competition and has played all over the world. The violin he played that night was a "1740 Ysaye Guarneri violin on loan from the Nippon Music Foundation." You gotta be good if they're lending you something that old. I cannot even begin to tell you how many times we must have clapped for him and actually caused him to come out and play an encore.

To the right is a quick video I took while inside the opera house during their warm up before the performance began.

During intermission we took pictures (on facebook) and a few people grabbed a drink before the bells were ringing and we had to head back inside. I can't do the show justice and try and describe the music, so I just won't. However, I'll say thats definitely not my typical music of choice, but I ended up loving it.

More to come on what happened this weekend and the start of this week. Thank you for reading :)


LOVE,

ME