Went to see the opera "La Boheme" this evening. It was nice. It's one of my favourite operas, even if some of the characters get on my nerves - Mimì, namely. ^^;
It was nice. Most of the singers were pretty decent - the tenor who sang Rodolfo excluded. >< The guy was one of the worst tenors I've seen in a while. Oh, vocally he was fine, sure, but he had all the expressiveness of a rock. You know those tenors who do nothing but stand, legs spread and arms spread? Yeah, one of those. It was painful to watch.
The soprano who sang Mimì was good, though, though not brilliant vocally. But what she lacked vocally she made up for in expressiveness.
They were, though, positively eclipsed by the Marcello-Musetta couple. Marcello was very good - far more expressive than Rodolfo was. And Musetta, well, she was bloody brilliant. Her aria in the second act was great, and the soprano (Sonia Peruzzo - I did a Google for her, hoping she had a website of her own... no luck, but I found several articles praising her in some of her past roles) was the character, she didn't just look as if she was acting the character. Same with her scene in act 3 - when she and Marcello were on the scene with the Rodolfo-Mimì couple, they drew far more attention. Which is unusual, of course, since they aren't the leading couple of the opera.
Meh. Since Musetta's my favourite character, I'm happy.
Though, that tenor... *cringe*