Slept well and had the usual breakfast and backgammon. I'm finally getting my score up a little higher. The site I play on doesn't have a very good dice program and it's amazing how many times you will lose to someone getting 4 doubles in a row!
Spent the afternoon starting to sort out the apartment. It's amazing how much rubbish we accumulate over a fairly short period of time. We are going to send some things home so we don't have to carry more than necessary around Europe. From here on, we will not be in any place longer than a week, so we really will be living out of suitcases, which is never fun. We will be a week in Barcelona then just over three weeks in the UK, travelling all over the place, catching up with family whenever we can. I love to drive, so I am quite looking forward to the UK part of the trip.
Despite the performance starting an hour later than the last one, I still managed to leave it to the last minute to arrive at the theater. The speakers which relay the performance to the dressing rooms appeared not to be working at the very start of the show, and I realised it had begun before I was ready, but luckily I am not on stage at the beginning, so pulled on my boots and coat and made my entrance on time.
A very good audience again tonight, who laughed loudly and in all the right places. The show went very well and all the cast seemed happy.
There was a short meeting afterwards with some university students, who asked some interesting questions. Several of them said it was their first opera, but definitely wouldn't be their last, which is always heartening.
We had some friends in the performance, so we saw them afterwards, and rolled into bed around 2am.