Been There, Done That: Opera

So Michael and I can finally say we've seen an opera at the Sydney Opera House. The Barber of Seville was playing last night. From the 7th most performed opera in the world, we walked away thinking, "That's what everyone is so crazy about?". The music was fun at times, but then got quite repetitive. The humor was really basic slapstick. The story was silly and had lots of holes in it. The production seemed to put a lot of effort into some visual effects that had very little to do with the "plot". Maybe for it's time it was good? I guess you have to frame it that way. The one thing I will say, though, is that the set was very good.

The most spectacular thing of the night was not the opera at all, but the lightning storm off in the distance that we could see during intermission, out towards the ocean.