Monday, December 11, 2006
Work has somewhat settled down: I’m getting home before midnight; have had 8 hours of sleep; am actually able to sit and chat with people from time and time and, God willing, have lunch with someone other than my computer.
As if you couldn’t tell from my last blog, the situation there has not been that great. I work with very difficult people in a thuggish industry. I worked my ass off, regardless, and the CEO even said “you pulled off nothing short of a miracle”. Thank God, some recognition for staying at work so late I actually caught the morning rush-hour traffic ON MY WAY HOME.
Why? I do it all so I have some money to do the things I want in life. I don't know.
Speaking of which, my mother came in last weekend. It was nice. We went shopping, eating, drinking and to the opera all weekend.
First night out was to see La Boheme. The Met’s marvelous production was graced with a new face: Angela Marambio as this season’s Mimi, and her Met debut. She was marvelous. She had a huge and resonating voice that spilled out drama, sadness, and love.
And Saturday we went out to see Mozart’s Idomineo. Problem is that the opera is somewhat dull. Though the singing was top notch, and I caught myself drifting in and out of sleep. I just couldn’t get into it.
Sunday we walked down to see the 5th avenue extravagance (tree, Sachs, etc.). For all the years I’ve been living here, I never actually got out and walked down 5th during the Christmas season. It was really something.
Then Monday was yet another opera, Don Carlo. OMFG it was a dream team cast -- Levine conducted – and everything about it was great. I guess you can’t go wrong with Verdi composing music about a doomed romance with the backdrop of the Spanish Inquisition.
Well, I guess I’m in a better mood, now.
Tree at Rockafeller Center
Mom from the Grand Tier at the Metropolitan Opera, Lincoln Center, to see Don Carlo.
