Veni, Verdi, Vici

A dear old friend suggested this spring that maybe we all should go to the opera, as in the New York Metropolitan Opera. Yours Truly and the Far Better Half said, yes, let’s, so it came to pass that we planned to see Giuseppi Verdi’s Requiem, which indeed we did this weekend past. Enjoyable! And no small musical affair: The chorus must have totaled a dozen dozens, accompanying four soloists and an orchestra that deployed everything but a tuba and bagpipes. And glockenspiel. And ukulele—well, they made room for just about every normal instrument you could imagine.