big william's world

The problem is that blogs often involve stories about other people and not everybody wants all there business blazoned all over the Internet. So we without-boundaries-bloggers have to respect their wishes and this results in periods of quietness. 

I know you understand.

To get to the point - a few blogs on - as you see it - or back as it is in reality - I went to the opera as I told/showed you.

This was a unique opera with Cirque du Soleil type special effects. Ghosts hovering around over the stage (people on strings)  and moving pictures projected onto clever backgrounds which could change from cave to tree to fish tank to rural china.

The music sounded very Oriental despite the Anglo Saxon sounding name of the composer.

The voices and orchestration were haunting yet very full sounds.

The cast was mostly female and Oriental. 

There was only one significant male character - a coffin maker called Chang who rises out of the stage dressed in bright yellow in one of his coffins which is completely transparent. 

He was a perfect Devil type character who opens with a commercial for his coffins as he stands up in it.

He then gesticulates, with his back to the audience, urinating in the coffin and admiring his fragrance as he wipes it from the insides of the coffin onto the people around him. Pretty weird stuff but he succeeds quickly in making the audience hate him and marrying the youngest prettiest girls.

If your appetite is "wetted" you can find excerpts on the Internet.

There were no tunes you went home singing to yourself, which is normally a requirement of mine for a good musical or opera, but the music was excellent and very enjoyable.