Forthcoming Trip to the Opera

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Hello all!!!Happy New Year!!! I hope everyone is SAFE tonight! It is going to get bone chilling cold here, and I will not be staying up.Today I purchased my first ever opera ticket. The Saint Louis Symphony is staging my favourite opera, Beethoven's "FIDELIO." The opera will be in concert format, without sets, scenery, costumes and dialoge. Lead soprano is Brewer doing Fidelio / Leonore!! WOW!!!!!!But I have it memorized watching a DVD four dozen times thus far. Fidelio will be sung in the original German, which fortunately I speak.I have not been down to Symphony Hall in two decades, and have trepidation about a theatre full of people. The music of Beethoven, and the great story may help me to not only attend, but enjoy, the opera!!!!!I know I will sing along with the performers, but I hope I can be quiet enough not to bother others???? Lately, I have been singing along in the

Key of F, and that is not as easy as writing it!!!!Anyone overcome trips to operas, concerts?? How did you prepare???The opera is Sunday 30 March, and I am ,crazy about attending!!!!Thanks a lot!Terry KlasekSaint Louis, Missouri