Traveling Europe for three months requires one to be thrifty. Despite being surrounded by some amazing things-- sometimes you have to skip them in order to maintain a healthy budget.
That being said-- I just saw an opera in Vienna. BAM!
The whole day we were being accosted by gentlemen dressed up like Mozart. At first I thought it was an effort to get us to go on tours-- but it turned out to be people trying to sell tickets to the opera. Usually we could deflect their advances with our standard, "We have no money." One man, however, was determined to get us to the opera.
He told us there was a standing gallery in the opera house. So, for just 3 Euros, we could see "Tosca" in the Vienna State Opera House. It was kind of awesome.
There were subtitles on tiny screens above us- so I was able to understand everything.
Best line of the night was the priests': "Women in the church smell of the devil."
Despite the priest's statements-- the men in the opera are really the scoundrels. The magistrate fellow (the bad guy) tries to persuade Tosca to trade her lover's life for... sexual favors. She agrees and gets him to sign papers that would guarantee her (and her lover!) safe passage-- then stabs him. As he dies-- she declares "Feel the kiss of Tosca!"
Tosca was quite the firecracker.
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