'Twas Good

The opera at Prospect Park last night was much better than the season finale at Central Park last summer because you weren't actually sitting on top of each other, people weren't talking on cell phones, and the volume was much louder or just clearer? And yes the crowd was smitten with the "love couple" who hammed it up for all they could- but hey it's the opera and that's exactly why you go to the opera- to be transported into that other world of exaggerated emotions and pulses, and heart beats, and string variations that makes our little lonely lives momentarily disappear