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“The acoustics are wonderful, but it may be the only opera house in the world where Rigoletto’s vows of revenge are punctuated by the raucous cries of seagulls.” [Christian Science Monitor]
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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.
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!
“I’m a jester’s daughter– no, I;m a seagull, that’s all wrong– It doesn’t matter!”
I hear that, opera apart, Savonolinna is not the most exciting place to spend a few days … Sticky and mosquito-ridden in the summer …
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.