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I just started this blog on May 5th, a national holiday called 'Children's Day' in Japan. A blog is like a diary to keep what you do or what you think that day, but I had a lot of musical experiences before the national holiday, so I would for a while like to post some of events I attended.

It was Feb 23rd in 2007 that I attended a highly succeeded opera production, Madam Butterfly, at Royal Albert Hall in London. I still remember much of the feeling I had - it was such a surprise.

Royal Albert Hall has unique structure of audience seats - which is set in a horseshoe shape, so the production was staged in the middle of the Hall. It might be easy to imagine how the shape of hall inside is when you recall Colosseum in Rome. (Albert Hall has the roof though. LOL)

I looked forward to the production as musical entertainment, yet, at the production, Madam Butterfly, I was impressed by the scenery. I swear I had never had such a great experience of enjoying scenery at my opera attending. The designer of the production was David Roger, and I am very proud of him. On the stage in the middle of the hall, a square-shape beautiful room was set floating on the real(!) water supported by corridors with short wooden columns creating a Japanese atmosphere fascinatingly. It was obvious that the production was aimed to realize the genuine Japanese culture. I was delighted that someone who is not Japanese tried to understand our culture and succeeded in creating the traditional Japanese world as an entertainment.
 

This is just a scenery, but how do you see this beauty? What a spectacular!

You could also take a look at a review of the production by another theater goer at woyano.