In the theatre he could not make out the words during the entire performance of Madame Butterfly. She told him, if you focus your mind on the singing, you’ll pick it up. Mozart’s Magic Flute is next Wednesday’s matinee, and we’re on the waiting list for Tosca by Puccini. And, although I don’t want to get your hopes up too early, Richard Wagner’s Lohengrin by the Dresden Opera is coming out on DVD soon.
Just for fun on April 1st, she, a lifelong vegetarian, forced herself to eat a sirloin steak; he ordered the veggie platter. Dizzy and nauseated, both of them said the same thing, I haven’t had such a terrible meal since childhood. Still, if you are willing, we can give it another try as soon as our gastrointestinal tracts recover from the trauma.
Even before the sixty-day was up, she turned carnivorous and bought a Liverpool season ticket; he became a vegan and an opera buff.
When their friends asked why their trial marriage had not worked out, they both said, we found out we are way too different from each other.