First I took the night bus to Oslo as usual. Luckily my bus was
not affected by the bad weather, real snowy conditions that had
closed some mountain roads. So I came in Oslo in good time for my
flight. And then I was in Barcelona after almost 3 hours on the
plane. All one had to look forward to was untasty plane food. So bad
that only the cola light and Pringles tasted good. At last,
Barcelona airport and my first encounter with the Catalan way of
queuing. Very polite and nice queue for taxi. And there were many
taxis and many people, and it was quick and polite. So then I was at
my hotel. Nice hotel but my room was very cold. Then I went to Placa
Catalunya to get used to going to the center and to have some nice
food (and get my tickets). Then soon it was time to get to the Liceu
for a concert version of Verdi´s Corsaro.
The orchestra was onstage. It was chairs and note-stative for the
singers. I was on front row. It was a wonderful sung and "acted"
Corsaro, Medora was wonderful, Gulnara even more wonderful, &
Corrado, the Corsair, Jose Cura was splendid. After a long wait Jose
Cura came out at the stage door. He was photographed, and after
signing and talking to his fans, at proximo midnight it was truly
over.
Today, Friday 4th, I have been suffering headaches, after my first
try out, I had to stop before I came to Placa Catalunya, I stopped
at Provinca and sat down at a small cafe, unfortunately It was heavy
music'ed. So I had to get to Muntaner and my hotel. After more
tablets and eating, and laying in my bed. I was ready to go out
again. Placa Catalunya and down la Ramblas to Liceu and down to the
harbor (almost) and the up again. At Placa Catalunya I visited
Fnac, at Liceu I visited the Shop and then Plácido Domingo came, he
is singing Parsifal day, and I got one good photo of him, when I
came up from the harbor, I was hijacked into a restaurant, ate
great ensalada and had a bite of pollo, then back to Muntaner, and
my hotel.
