Eliza's First Opera Performance

Earlier this week I took Eliza and Luke to the library to look for an audiobook I needed to read before my book club meeting tonight - they didn't have the book on CD, so I binge-read the book in 2 1/2 days, which is why I'm not prepared to do my TBT tonight.  I'll happen soon though, I hope.  Anyway, we were at the library to just look for that one thing and were planning to go to Costco afterwards.  But then I saw a poster advertising the fact that there was an OPERA WORKSHOP for kids happening in 15 minutes.  So.  We didn't go to Costco.  My babies and I attended an opera workshop instead.

Unfortunately, the workshop was not on Eliza's level.  I think she enjoyed it, but afterward I asked her if she'd like to go to an opera and she replied in the negative.  Oh, well.  I have a few years to keep working on her, right?

The workshop began with an introduction to different vocal parts, musical terms, singing techniques, and opera itself.  Two singers then performed a scene from Elixir of Love, in Italian, and the kids were to see if they could figure out what was going on without knowing the language, and they did a pretty good job, including Eliza.  At the end, the kids were invited to be a part of an "opera," where a bunch of boys sang a couple of impromptu lines as Jacks and a bunch of girls sang a couple of impromptu lines as Jills, and they all fell down a hill while they improvised their own cadenzas.  Eliza did great.  I think she was the best Jill of all.