sistawendy: me in C18-inspired makeup looking amused (amused eighteenthcent)
Mom took me out to the University of Florida's (mostly) student production of The Magic Flute. It was a good time full of some amazing vocal performances; I'm pretty sure the Queen of the Night was one of the three pros. Yowza! Not to mention eighteenth-century low comedy and Masonic propaganda.

No joke about that last: Mozart and his librettist were both Freemasons, as was our esteemed first president. I like to imagine Pres. Washington and Herr Mozart giving each other the Masonic handshake, which I believe appears in The Magic Flute a few times.

I felt a few twinges of regret at abandoning Classical music all those years ago. Ah, the sound of chaotic mass warm-up noodling in the orchestra pit. The students did acquit themselves quite well, for the most part.

SFDs: I got dolled up much as I did on New Year's, i.e. in the black 50's retro dress, only bare-legged with open-toed strappy heels instead of hose & boots. Mom called me "a long-stemmed rose". She melted me on the spot.
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