C.O.c.o.

Over the weekend I saw the Cincinnati Opera Company's performance of The Marriage of Figaro by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (rock me Amadeus!). It was Nathan's debut with the C.O. c.o. and my date for the evening was my beautiful mother whom wore gigantic but classy high heels, a brown dress with small white dots with belt, white half sweater, and lovely dangling pearls. The performance was great — Nathan was stupendous, and mom loved it (it was her first opera). However, at three hours and ten minutes in length with only one intermission, holy shit. It was held in Cincinnati's treasured Music Hall (pictured) which was built in the 1870s and as far as I know has never really been renovated (but added onto, yes, see below) so everything is pretty much the same Gothic architecture it was back then. They don't build them like that anymore. What is interesting is that this grand structure is built on top of a Potter's Field — a graveyard for the insane, the suicides, homeless, and unknown and indigent people. During a 1988 addition to Music Hall while digging an elevator shaft, on the first day workers found 88lbs of human bones, the day following an additional 119lbs. Among these were 19 skulls and 60 femurs of adults and some children. Paranormal activity has been reported since the nineteenth century. Famed conductor Erich Kunzel and CEO of the company Patricia K. Breggs, are among the many whom have reported such activity. Christine Daae, Viscount Raoul de Chagny, and "Erik" ...