Attending a Virginia
Opera Company Performance with Juilliard Graduate Florence Paget by Savvy Mom
Ruth Paget
I
read the Community Section of the Virginian-Pilot newspaper everyday to look
for inexpensive or free things to do in the Hampton Roads area.
One
day I found a free performance by the Virginia Opera Company of Little Red
Riding Hood.
“What
is opera,” Florence asked.
“It
is a sung play. You will love it. Really!”
I reassured Florence as we went to the show.
Florence
sat transfixed through the performance and asked the singers afterwards during
the question-and-answer period, “Do you get hot under the lights?”
“We
forget about the heat when we sing,” one of the singers answered.
As
we left the show, Florence remarked, “They really sang everything in the show.”
“That’s
what they do in opera. Maybe you could
be an opera singer,” I said.
“I
would rather sing like Selena,” she answered.
She loved seeing Jennifer Lopez sing like Selena in the movie about
Selena’s life when we picked her daddy up from boot camp outside Chicago when
he joined the Navy.
The
following days, though, Florence sang out her favorite fairy tales despite
saying that she wanted to be Selena rather than Carmen.
The
kids’ opera was a fun outing with little Florence. I think kids’ opera is the sort of thing you
should have in a “village” to raise children as Hilary Clinton said in her book
It Takes a Village. (I do read a lot,
including cereal ingredients on cereal boxes.)
Most of my blogs do have a back story in them of what I want in a "village" for raising children in the US. Many of these activities require volunteer work and proven results before they can get funding, though.
By
Ruth Paget, author of Eating Soup with Chopsticks and Marrying France
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