My First Opera...

Last night we went to my first Opera ever. It was a Cinderella Opera sung in English, and they had subtitles, just in case you didn't understand what they were singing. This Cinderella is not your typical Disney Cinderella, it's got comedy and the standard story with a slight twist. In this story, Cinderella has the 2 stepsisters but in this one she has a stepfather instead of a stepmother. There is no fairy godmother, rather a godfather. The one thing I did notice is the color of the stepsisters dresses, in most movies I've seen, they wear red and green, this is true in Ever After (my favorite), and even in A Cinderella Story with  Hillary Duff (modern age Cinderella) the stepsisters wore red and green. There must be a reason, some symbolism about it, but I can't seem to find it. The Opera was amazing and since it was sung in English it was understandable and fun, we had a smile on our faces the whole performance. These tickets were free and we even had free champagne, very nice. There was a 20 minute intermission (that's when we went out and got free drinks). I enjoyed this very much and believe that if my husband ever gets free tickets to another opera we'd definitely be going again.

Now, onto the dress code. When we received the invitation, the invitation stated a dress code, lounge suite. Now, personally I had no idea what this meant and didn't want to assume anything, so I Googled and found that lounge suite means for men, a suit and tie matching their ladies dress, for women it meant a dress, one that's a bit on the longer side. So, we walk from the car park and when we get to this place I am the fanciest dressed woman there, there was one dude wearing a tuxedo but there were people wearing jeans, jeans to an Opera? Ok it wasn't at the Sydney Opera House, but still. We were people watching while we waited to be called in, and you'd think people didn't have mirrors in their places. I'm not saying wear a ball gown or go out and buy a dress like I did, but wear something fancier, it is an opera and I've heard many women say while I was dress shopping, that an opera was the place to get dressed up to the nines. I even wore my wedding shoes, they are comfy I must say for 4 inch heels.