Being alone
I have watched Madama Butterfly in Helsinki Opera yesterday. I felt alone among all the people and I felt the pain of the poor mother on the stage so hardly that I decided to start to write. Some of the pain should go out. So, here I am.
Music was very classic, the actor was korean, so the impression was very authentic. What I didn't like was the look of the stage. Kind of modern hall, iron platforms. That lowered my impression, but I know that's the trend. I could at least be happy for that. I saw already plenty of stuff when I had to leave right away. I am not any artist so probably I just do not understand that. But I am the consumer. Am I the only person who doesn't like it? I want classics not any super modernized versions. When the ballet dancer was dancing over the platform I got scared that she is going to fall or stuck in the metal floor. Otherwise she looked lovely like a swan flying over the stage.
What I was surprised about was the age of the Butterfly role. Only 15. I felt totally disgusted. I know that it was normal at that time but I have two small daughters now and since I saw it last time I feel it as inappropriate. The soldier made a baby to a kid and left her as a piece of used toy. In the end the new wife of the soldier took the kid from the poor mother as the only possibility. How I could be so angry just about the opera. It is only story. Which is based on real stories happening at that time, or even now. My head was spinning. I couldn't imagine me on her place and give up any of my daughters. I have tried to imagine real problem that I would feel that it would be better for kids to go away from me. But it would kill me anyway. In any reason.
But overall I liked the opera and also that I have been there alone. I have to go there soon again. But next time I will take my older daughter to see a ballet. Hope she will like ballets and operas as I do.
I have watched Madama Butterfly in Helsinki Opera yesterday. I felt alone among all the people and I felt the pain of the poor mother on the stage so hardly that I decided to start to write. Some of the pain should go out. So, here I am.
Music was very classic, the actor was korean, so the impression was very authentic. What I didn't like was the look of the stage. Kind of modern hall, iron platforms. That lowered my impression, but I know that's the trend. I could at least be happy for that. I saw already plenty of stuff when I had to leave right away. I am not any artist so probably I just do not understand that. But I am the consumer. Am I the only person who doesn't like it? I want classics not any super modernized versions. When the ballet dancer was dancing over the platform I got scared that she is going to fall or stuck in the metal floor. Otherwise she looked lovely like a swan flying over the stage.
What I was surprised about was the age of the Butterfly role. Only 15. I felt totally disgusted. I know that it was normal at that time but I have two small daughters now and since I saw it last time I feel it as inappropriate. The soldier made a baby to a kid and left her as a piece of used toy. In the end the new wife of the soldier took the kid from the poor mother as the only possibility. How I could be so angry just about the opera. It is only story. Which is based on real stories happening at that time, or even now. My head was spinning. I couldn't imagine me on her place and give up any of my daughters. I have tried to imagine real problem that I would feel that it would be better for kids to go away from me. But it would kill me anyway. In any reason.
But overall I liked the opera and also that I have been there alone. I have to go there soon again. But next time I will take my older daughter to see a ballet. Hope she will like ballets and operas as I do.
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