Bartered Bride

February 7th, 2003 at 7:30 p.m. I attended an opera. The name of the opera I attended was The Bartered Bride. This opera is from Czechoslovakia but it was performed in English. The performance was at Grand Valley State University’s Louis Armstrong Theatre. The opera music was supplied by the GVSU symphony orchestra. The person who directed this opera’s performance was Isabel Milenki.
At first it seemed weird for me to be at an opera. I’m usually not the type of person to attend such an event. After I got settled and read my program to see what this was going to be like the show started. The first thing I noticed was the stage was tilted on and angle toward the audience. I kept thinking that it must have been difficult for the performers to be on such and angle. Then seeing how it didn’t seem to be affecting the actors too much I sat back and began to enjoy the show.
The beginning of the opera had a long instrumental sequence. I was a little thrown off be...