Verdi in Bonn

Dan and I had a great Saturday together this weekend. After checking emails and skyping, we walked over to the Japanese noodle house to warm up with a bowl of Udon soup and some tempura. After that we wandered (like a typical German couple) around the city center and ended up at the Visitor's Bureau, where we bought 14 Euro tickets (seats at the very back of the theater) for Verdi's Un Ballo In Maschera. 

We made a quick dinner of Gnoccis with cheese, and at 7:30 walked a block over to the Opera House on the banks of the Rhein. The theater was half empty when we took our seats, so right before the curtain call, most of us in the back scurried out way towards better seats in the front. 

Daniel and I moved up to what where probably 50 Euro seats and had a wonderful view of the entire stage, including the projected German subtitles, which we would not have been able to see from the back. I was surprised to find that my German was good enough to understand about half of what was going on. Thankfully we both read the opera's synopsis on wikipedia, which helped me understand the other half! We both really enjoyed the production and finished off the evening with another short walk around our neighborhood.