A New Arts Experience

Cole and I have talked for many years about going to the opera and Sunday we finally did so. First we headed out to brunch with our friend Dasha at Murphy's and ate some really delish food, then it was time for the arts! 'The Pirates of Penzance' was playing at the Egyptian Theater and Cole and I have never been to an opera so we decided to go. Kind of weird, they only had a Friday night performance and then a Sunday matinee performance. Since the Friday night performance was right during the BSU football game, we opted for the Sunday matinee. It was not bad, although I did expect it to be in another language and it wasn't. The Opera reminded me a lot of a musical, just with some high note opera singing mixed into the shuffle. 

The performance was a comedy about -you guessed it- a bunch of pirates! One pirate was due to be out of his pirate term and so decided he was going to find himself a new bride. Instead the pirate crew found a way to keep him under their servitude since he was born on a leap year and was said to need to serve 22 years of service with the pirates. Since he hadn't had 22 birthdays due to leap years, they said he was still a pirate. This poor guy had already fallen in love with another girl by this point and decided to figure out a way to make all of the pirates happy and so they all wound up with wives/girlfriends in the end and everyone lived happily ever after. It was a cute story. 

Overall I would say it was nice for the experience and I would go again. However, if I had to choose between the opera and a ballet/dance performance, or the Shakespeare festival I would pick one of those two over the opera since the price is comparable. I found I enjoy dance and the Shakespeare festival more. We are planning on going again though in February to see La Boheme. Thiis Opera will  be in a different language so it will be interesting to see how I feel about that performance.