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My wife and I make okay money in a middle class area, but, due to a combination of good luck, and contrived to circumstances, we recently got to watch a college football game in the stadium's super executive corporate sponsor level suite. It was awesome. Open bar, amazing catered food, and people networking all around me who are clearly in the c-suite of their respective companies. I had a list of crazy things I was going to say if someone asked me what I did, but it never came up.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Which opera did you see? I am an opera lover and I've seen people wearing tuxedos with flip-flops, and a dog wearing a rhinestone necklace.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I went and saw Nabucco. Was pretty enjoyable, and I got to sit in the orchestra section with one of the cheaper tickets they release the day of the performance. Would go back for another if I could avail myself of the program again.

I had also deliberately picked one of the shorter operas they put on that season, wasn't trying to commit to some 5 hour monstrosity straight out the gate.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

Nabucco is a good way to begin with opera indeed! Very early Verdi and definitely not the quality of his later most famous works but still pretty amazing. The role of Abigaille is called a voice wrecker so it's not often performed. Glad you liked.