i went to my first chinese opera last week.
the audience was very unlike a western audience and more like what i'd expect to see at a hindi film. people chatted throughout the performance, elderly folks kept getting up to go to the bathroom (accompanied by 2 or 3 relatives, of course, forcing entire rows of people to stand up to let them through), and i could hear the crinkly-crackly sound of plastic bags being opened every few minutes (i'm guessing that people were unwrapping food). the woman behind us seemed to know the entire opera, and sung along!
i was having a good time. i think my bf enjoyed himself too. still...after four hours, six acts, an extended intermission where everyonefrom the people in hong kong who designed the programs to the guest director from vancouverhad to be thanked, and three or four closing dance numbers, i was ready to run screaming into the street.
the audience was very unlike a western audience and more like what i'd expect to see at a hindi film. people chatted throughout the performance, elderly folks kept getting up to go to the bathroom (accompanied by 2 or 3 relatives, of course, forcing entire rows of people to stand up to let them through), and i could hear the crinkly-crackly sound of plastic bags being opened every few minutes (i'm guessing that people were unwrapping food). the woman behind us seemed to know the entire opera, and sung along!
i was having a good time. i think my bf enjoyed himself too. still...after four hours, six acts, an extended intermission where everyonefrom the people in hong kong who designed the programs to the guest director from vancouverhad to be thanked, and three or four closing dance numbers, i was ready to run screaming into the street.
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i know the choruses to a couple of japanese pop songs, but that's it. this was, i'm fairly certain, not japanese. wrong phonemes.
wait, is phoneme a word, or did i just make that up?
so, "someone" is back from new zealand. and as amazing as ever. but, we seem to have gone from parting hugs to parting waves and a parting pat on the shoulder. i am, as you might imagine, utterly confused by the whole thing. i've been polling all my female friends for advice, but they seem as stumped as i.
[Edited on Apr 12, 2004 10:57PM]