Jan 17 after the Museums

After the museums we took a cab to a restaurant near to Lincoln Center.  The restaurant was kosher Italian (dairy). 

The phrase 'Noi Due' means 'the two or us' or 'we two' or something similar. The phrase 'Poco ma buono' means 'little but good'. The restaurant is not that small  but it is a few feet below street level a small street front.

After the restaurant we were a short walk to the Metropolitan Opera House. 

We had tickets ($30 each plus a $20 service fee - not too bad), to Romeo et Juliette. The image (from the internet) is from Act 3 where the two are married by a priest (this should have been a  happy ending but of course things went wrong soon after). 

The metropolitan opera can seat 4000 with standing room. It probably held 2800 the night we were there. 

The NYC Metropolitan Opera has some nice chandeliers also.  However, in this respect, the opera theater at the Kennedy Center has a better one.

Nonetheless, the soprano's voice completely filled the hall and sounded marvelous.  The opera company did a cute thing with the lighting in Act 4 when Juliette was singing a soliloquy while contemplating drinking a potion that would temporarily paralyze her. One spotlight was on Juliette, the other on the potion making it seem a duet (except the potion didn't sing). 

Also, they put in something in the opera that Shakespeare didn't. With their last line (during the scene shown in the last image from Act 5- from the internet) they ask God for forgiveness - which seems a reasonable move to me given that suicide is a sin.

After the opera we took a cab back to the hotel.