Good morning,
I think I am getting a bit of a cultural shock, as this much culture in only four days is way too much, lol.
So, yesterday I finally went to see the van Gogh exhibition (it was about the time).
And, it was absolutely great timing - Monday afternoon, not that many people around.
Ok, it was definitely a bit busier than it would be in the early afternoon, but that was on purpose, lol.
You see, after museum I went to the Opera again. This time it was 'Romeo and Juliet'. An opera.
I wasn't as lucky as the day before when I stumbled onto the lady who offered me a ticket. This time I sat in the gallery, a bit too much to the right (for my taste). And I paid more (15E).
Of course, yours truly has changed the seats at the beginning of the second act, :D
Still the gallery, but centre (there were empty seats, so why not; I can hear you Dutch mumbling 'Foreigners, you're all alike...')
I didn't like it that much. I mean, they sung well, but the idea and the scene and choreography... It simply didn't click.
And, I always thought that R&J was a ballet, not an opera...
I was surprised by the plot. I think, I'll have to read a bit more about it. Here, R&J had a wedding, had their wedding night and even had half an hour before dying. Together, of course.
Ok, the ballet surprised me, too. When I read Onegin, his death was the main point of the whole book, wasn't it? (please remind me, that book I’d read trillion years ago)
Well, in the ballet, it all goes more about the girl who was in love with the Oniegin’s best friend, rather then Oniegin himself.
Van Gogh, I have finally seen it.
And I loved it! There were a few key paintings missing (like the sunflowers or that room in tra-ta-ta), but for the rest, it was a really good exhibition. I kept on returning to see my favourite paintings. (Ha, some of them are in The Hague/Amsterdam, so I will definitely see them again).
I loved the colours he used, especially the green and the blue.
A few things I have heard or been talked to.
On my way from the airport to Vienna, in the bus, I sat next to an Indian man. We were talking about the general stuff. One of the things he said was that Vienna is so clean, unlike France or the Netherlands, for example.
Well, the streets we have passed were clean, that’s true.
Although, later (on Sunday morning when I was on my way from the “Passage”-he, he, he-bok-Mali-kak-si-kaj), I’ve seen why is it so clean.
You see at two, three, four, five in the morning there is a small army of the cleaners who go around and clean the streets so that we tourists can enjoy the clean city.
Wow, what a wake up call. I wish my Indian friend was there to see it for himself.
I was really lucky, I must say. This much lovely weather… hmm…
Anyway, I have found out that I have to go to Vienna again, as I’d like to see Anthony Hopper exhibition (good excuse, isn’t it?)
Love ya all
Post je objavljen 01.10.2008. u 15:02 sati.