parterre box

5 comments

• Baritenor says:

  This is kind of a technicality because it’s a theater, not an Opera House, but the Cowell theater in San Francisco, home of the San Francisco Lyric Opera, also has this problem. The theater is a converted Navy Barrack on a Dock between Alcatraz and the Golden Gate Bridge. Even inside the building you can hear the seagulls.

  on June 19, 2009 at 5:20 PM
• Scott Rose says:

  The seagulls’ cries could hardly be more apposite.

  After all, “La donna e’ mobile, qual PIUM al vento.”

  Now if only somebody could get that birdbrain Gilda to heed the seagulls’ warnings!

  on June 19, 2009 at 6:09 PM
• Krunoslav says:

  “I’m a jester’s daughter– no, I;m a seagull, that’s all wrong– It doesn’t matter!”

  on June 19, 2009 at 7:28 PM
• MontyNostry says:

  I hear that, opera apart, Savonolinna is not the most exciting place to spend a few days … Sticky and mosquito-ridden in the summer …

  on June 21, 2009 at 4:39 AM
• Despina says:

  My friend soprano Osceola Davis used to go there fairly regularly to sing the Queen of the Night (in Finnish!). She said the buffets there after the performance contain a Finnish fish specialty that’s full of tiny bones. She almost choked on them.

  on June 22, 2009 at 5:00 PM