Happy Birthday Mozart!
For those of you who didn’t know - it was Mozart’s birthday last Friday! I can’t honestly say that I knew that either - but as Mozart was born, lived and thrived just not to far from here, it is weeeeeel known around these parts! 
I will say that I do really enjoy his music. There definitely is a distinctive quality and a uniqueness that is so beautiful. One of my friends, Simone, let me know early this week that she found a ballet that would be playing some of Mozart’s most famous works on the weekend accompanied by a ballet. Nice! So I let a few people know and got some tickets to the Saturday show. I waited probably a hair too long to purchase the tickets so the best seats to the show were sold out, however, I got what I thought looked like some good seats. These I got out of a long, estranged conversation with two, very friendly, non-English speaking ticket sales women at a mall near my office. Well, when we arrived at the show we were thrilled to find out that not only were we in the first row… but we were close enough to actually turn the sheet music for the musicians that were playing!! haha. Not even kidding. I discretly tried to take a picture:
No camera trickery here… not even a zoom. In fact, when the musicians came out onto the stage for the first time, the chell-ist (sp?) actually said something to me. She said it in Hungarian so I’m not sure what it was she said to me exactly, but we both giggled anyway so it must have been funny for her too that we were sitting so close.
So the musicians played for a little bit… then there were a few opera singers who sang for awhile… all was really really good so far. Then the dancers came out. I could really just see the forms of them emerging from the background. I could see one male dancer in the back of the stage - and from where I was sitting with my view slightly blocked by the string section, it looked like the dancer was naked. So I leaned over to the friend next to me and said just that, “It looks to me like he’s naked from here!” Guess what? HE WAS NAKED. All the dancers were. It was by no means full frontal nudity or anything - but for sure they did not have much on in the means of clothing. So here I am… watching a naked ballet with some friends from work and some from chuch whom I had invited. Yep-smooth move, Jessie. haha. I’m exaggerating, of course. The number they were doing was somewhat of a reverse strip-tease so they did actually get more clothes on for the rest of the show - but still. Was a very interesting opening. Perhaps this is what they were going for?! All-and-all it turned out to be a great show. Great music, great singing, and great dancing. I am also now inspired to somehow achive the body of a dancer. haha This will be hard to do with my full time desk job but we’ll see what we can do. 
All and all a great experience. I may even be tempted to go back an see another show. Good stuff.
Here is a pic of the outside of the theater - a HUGE building along the Danube. All lit up and sparkly at night.
