Tuesday, I was so excited to get ballet tickets to see Swan Lake. The performance was sold out but thanks to the handy “day of” ticket, I was able to squeeze a place into Stalls Circle Left. There was a chatty guy on my right from San Sebastian, Spain who kept speaking in rapid english but making lots of little noises like gesticulations. It was pretty amusing. At the first interval, the girl on my left from Argentina studying set design and theatre suggested we move closer to the front where three seats were available. We did. It was fabulous.

This production of Swan Lake was much different than the last I saw at the Royal Opera House. It had almost a Spanish feel to it with some strange little creatures, much like the winged beasts in Wizard of Oz, that ran around the stage during Act III. It was pretty engaging but I think Manon might be my new favorite ballet.