Saturday Night at the Opera

We went to our first live opera on Saturday night. We saw Verdi's "Aida".Verdi wrote this opera in his 80's.  The story is basically about an Egyptian army commander Radames falling in love with an Ethiopian slave girl (also a princess). He betrays his country and is sentenced to death by entombment. The bad part about the opera was that it was sung in Italian and the sub-titles were in Ukrainian. We would have had no idea what was going on however, the music teacher at our school gave our group a quick synopsis of the opera prior to going. We rode the metro into the city, had dinner and then walked to the opera house which was built in 1867. Tickets were very inexpensive, only 150 UAH ($19) a piece. Those were for the good seats. The lowest priced tickets were 10 UAH ($1.25)

                                                                    The Paughs

                                                           Brett, Susan and Deb

                                                Anne, Traci, Kristina, Leann and Vivian

                                                                  Bob and Morgan

                                              Sitting at restaurant waiting for dinner

                                                            The Kyiv Opera House

                                     Everyone had to check their coat before going into theater

                                                           Interior of opera house

                                                                       Mezzanine

                                                              Dome of opera house

                                                                   Prior to curtain