Prague Journal

Wednesday, October 13, 2004.

The Prague Post’s entertainment section listed Don Giovanni at the Estates Theater (where it premiered) for this evening, so I decided that it might be fun to go. Rick was not enthusiastic, but agreed to go anyway.
We were able to get first-tier box-seat tickets (for about $32 each). Just being in the theater would have been worth the price. http://www.estatestheatre.cz/et_history.html Listening to the orchestra alone would have been worth the price. The singing and staging would have been worth the price. On top of all that, the “overtitles” projected above the stage were in Czech and English, so we could follow the story through the songs much better than we had been able to in the past, with only liner notes or summaries in the program. What a delight!

posted by JWinn @ 7:20 PM