Entre Les Murs

Eugene Onegin at The (other) Met

My appreciation for opera owes more than anything else to the Saturday afternoon Texaco broadcasts on CBC 2 (long before it was called that), Live From the Met.  My mother was a regular listener, and as children hours of opera was a penance we had to pay if we wanted, say, riding lessons on Saturdays (not that I particularly did, but I had a pony-mad sister).  When I left home, I found the habit had become ingrained and puttering about my home with the opera on in the background was a pleasant way to spend Saturday afternoon.

So many years after that, and some slight increase in listening sophistication, it seems natural and inevitable that I should take my mother to the the Metropolitan Opera here in New York.  The Met has a special program for rush tickets, and since I have the time these days, I lined up before the appointed time and snagged two tickets to Eugene Onegin for $20 each (since these seats normally start at $110, it's a pretty terrific deal).

posted 21.2.09