Madama Butterfly

No Chinese tourists to aggravate me at The Met last night...though I still shudder at the memory of having many a concert in Shanghai's Grand Theater ruined by loud conversations, cell phones ringing and other flagrant theater-going offenses.

Such a depressing story...it's almost unbearably grievous; the recklessness of the American #&$^&*% and the delusional girl he helps to destroy. The whole production was charming visually, and appropriately intense. It was especially cool to go with an aspiring opera singer--she gave me the real deal on the singers.