Saturday Night at the Ballet

We’ve been living it up on the free performances! Last night, we watched Andrew Lloyd Weber’s “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat” stream (a new one each Friday night!), and tonight was the Opera National de Paris production of “Swan Lake” (they have many more productions to watch on their site). It is like PBS’s Great Performances on steroids over here. I’m not sure which is better, though – watching the productions and thinking about how there’s no way we could have had this great of a view in the seats our family can afford, or watching my 5-year old daughter completely captivated by both performances. My 10-year old loved them both, too, but I kind of expected her to be into it all.

We had a turkey in the freezer from back when they were cheap (Thanksgiving time). We decided to make that and have “Thanksgiving in April.” As we sat down to eat our feast of turkey and stuffing, we went around and thought about all the things we are thankful for in this crazy time. It was nice to focus on gratitude, instead of stress and uncertainty. I highly recommend it to anyone else who may have bought a spare turkey last November!

Here’s the links to the Paris National Opera and Andrew Lloyd Weber streams:

Paris National Opera (they have the Barber of Seville and Carmen coming up!): https://infos.operadeparis.fr/optiext/optiextension.dll?ID=LhgLgkNYkqX4QHBDMRrImMymEk0xmadHzdGlgJQFYkBNAlCvTKVkJTsuLXcA2JT8ItkVIC0KnBjQ3q5T3nmHMM7SHL59L

Andrew Lloyd Weber (next week is Jesus Christ Superstar): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdmPjhKMaXNNeCr1FjuMvag