If opera repertoire were a candy store, this would be Belgian chocolate laced with speed in a spotlight with a theme song and superhero tights

Friday, July 11th

Bayerisches Staatsoper

Muenchner Sommer Opernfestspiel

Edita Gruberova

Yes, she’s singing IT…

Norma.

No, I’m not lying.

Performance of a lifetime.

And I, my dear friends, will be watching this moment in opera history.

At the only performance open to the public.

Which is sold out.

From the light box.

aka The best seat in the house, not on sale.

BYOB

Many thanks to Corey who wedged his head way up the butt of the director of the Staatsoper on my behalf. I have too many words of thanks to be spoken here, and many of them wouldn’t really be translatable into bloggy format as they involved shrieking, grovelling, and sacrilegious gesturing. Suffice it say, Corey, thank you. You are the man. And, the next time I see you, I will have wipes…