The Magic Flute

This was of the Magic Flute opera Sara and I went to...It was quite a while back...anyways...It's Mozart's 300 or 400th birthday and so the entire city of Hanoi was celebrating it with many concerts and operas by the dead dude...

Well this being my first opera, I was pretty excited and I was all dressed up with my shirt and tie...Sara was reluctant to dress up because she knew that the Vietnamese who went to the opera would wear shorts and t-shirts...But she dressed up anyways...

The opera house was beautiful...but cramped... very very vietnamese

They even had a little screen on the yop right, with vietnamese subtitles coz the opera was in German...and the dialogue was in Vietnamese

Little Shop of Horrors!!!

Well anyways, the opera was good however the costumes.....cripes!!! S&M leather clad women with spears and golden spiral breast guards, a man in a green-dyed chicken suit, paper mache animal head wearing people in tights ( the actors had to hold on the the head while they moved around coz they were too big and would fall of if they had not done so) Argon (from LOTR), 3 mozarts in a hot air balloon, and a whole bunch of cult like people...rather disturbing.... but very vietnamese....I LOVE Vietnam!!!