It could have either been from the Queen album or the Marx brother’s film of the same name but we had our night at the opera on Friday. Lisa and I went to see "Don Pasquale" on Friday 
night. It is an “Opera Buffa” which means a comic opera. This production was updated to a setting in the American SouthWest at the turn of the century, which is funny because it was still in Italian. I don’t think there were a lot of cowboys named Ernesto (well maybe a few Spanish ones). The opera was fun and in one act it showed a man’s usual response when he gets dumped, he turns to hookers & beer. At the beginning of Act II Ernesto is drowning his sorrows in a tub with 3 hookers and a bottle of whiskey. The hookers aren't doing anything naughty (and he keeps it that way) but they help him compose a letter and pour him whiskey. I have explained to Lisa in the past that this is how guys usually get over a woman after he is dumped. Let me explain with some empirical evidence.
While stationed in Germany (for the second time) there was a group of us guys who supported each other through various breakups and a couple of divorces. We were all in our mid-twenties to late twenties and played softball and football together. What we would do is when one of was dumped (or served with papers from the wife back home while she was on "vacation") we would take the person to Tom’s Golden Nugget (one of the worst dive bars you have ever seen) and we would begin to drown the subject in beer. Just across the parking lot was Annabelle House (one of Germany’s famous brothels at the time, which is now low rent housing BTW). After enough beer and George Jones pain songs (oh yeah Tom’s had a great jukebox) we would walk the subject over to Annabelle House and buy him a hooker. We would all hang out in the bar on the first floor until the girl walked him downstairs and deposited him at the table where we would proceed to buy him more beer until he passed out. (If the breakup was really painful we would substitute tequila for beer. A word of warning here you must be very careful when mixing tequila with hookers, an improper mix and the evening ends really early! Enough said on that topic.) Anyway it always worked for us so I was happy to see that our procedure we followed so many years ago was actually something guys did way back in history. (Hey what can I say, we were all young, boisterous, and thought we were bullet proof. Ever wonder why I am so calm most of the time? I sowed all my wild oats in Europe as a young man.)
Anyway back to the opera. Ernesto finds out it is only a trick being played on his rich Uncle so he and the woman he loves can get married. The trick works and he and his true love get married and the Uncle blesses the union.
We had dinner before the opera at a restaurant that is in the basement of the opera house. It was a very nice dinner. We stayed in Denver for the night at the Hotel Monaco as we usually do. It is a great place and is pet friendly. It is a short walk over to the theater complex. Our next opera is in April and it is “The Flying Dutchman” by Vagner. It will be done with out any setting in the back ground. We have tickets in the 4th row for this one. I enjoy Vagner’s music very much. I’m not sure where will eat but I’m sure we will be staying at the Monaco again.
night. It is an “Opera Buffa” which means a comic opera. This production was updated to a setting in the American SouthWest at the turn of the century, which is funny because it was still in Italian. I don’t think there were a lot of cowboys named Ernesto (well maybe a few Spanish ones). The opera was fun and in one act it showed a man’s usual response when he gets dumped, he turns to hookers & beer. At the beginning of Act II Ernesto is drowning his sorrows in a tub with 3 hookers and a bottle of whiskey. The hookers aren't doing anything naughty (and he keeps it that way) but they help him compose a letter and pour him whiskey. I have explained to Lisa in the past that this is how guys usually get over a woman after he is dumped. Let me explain with some empirical evidence.While stationed in Germany (for the second time) there was a group of us guys who supported each other through various breakups and a couple of divorces. We were all in our mid-twenties to late twenties and played softball and football together. What we would do is when one of was dumped (or served with papers from the wife back home while she was on "vacation") we would take the person to Tom’s Golden Nugget (one of the worst dive bars you have ever seen) and we would begin to drown the subject in beer. Just across the parking lot was Annabelle House (one of Germany’s famous brothels at the time, which is now low rent housing BTW). After enough beer and George Jones pain songs (oh yeah Tom’s had a great jukebox) we would walk the subject over to Annabelle House and buy him a hooker. We would all hang out in the bar on the first floor until the girl walked him downstairs and deposited him at the table where we would proceed to buy him more beer until he passed out. (If the breakup was really painful we would substitute tequila for beer. A word of warning here you must be very careful when mixing tequila with hookers, an improper mix and the evening ends really early! Enough said on that topic.) Anyway it always worked for us so I was happy to see that our procedure we followed so many years ago was actually something guys did way back in history. (Hey what can I say, we were all young, boisterous, and thought we were bullet proof. Ever wonder why I am so calm most of the time? I sowed all my wild oats in Europe as a young man.)
Anyway back to the opera. Ernesto finds out it is only a trick being played on his rich Uncle so he and the woman he loves can get married. The trick works and he and his true love get married and the Uncle blesses the union.
We had dinner before the opera at a restaurant that is in the basement of the opera house. It was a very nice dinner. We stayed in Denver for the night at the Hotel Monaco as we usually do. It is a great place and is pet friendly. It is a short walk over to the theater complex. Our next opera is in April and it is “The Flying Dutchman” by Vagner. It will be done with out any setting in the back ground. We have tickets in the 4th row for this one. I enjoy Vagner’s music very much. I’m not sure where will eat but I’m sure we will be staying at the Monaco again.
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Very Cool!!
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