An evening with Madam Butterfly....

I had a lovely evening at The Royal Albert Hall yesterday....a beautiful production of Madam Butterfly.....

Not a particularly good photo, but it is staged in the round and the set was lovely....it was an all round exquisite production. Which of course brought a tear to my eye at the end as it always does.

The tickets were a steal through an offer from Time Out, so my friends and I only paid £37 for £68 tickets in the stalls.  A little bit of a nailbiter as you have to wait and see where the theatre will seat you, but although we were a little bit round to one side, we were in the front row!

I work almost opposite the Royal Albert Hall, so it was a very good location for an evening out, but I didn't get home till quarter to midnight.  The cat was sitting waiting for me with her arms crossed, tapping one foot on the floor and glaring at me as if to say " where the heck have you been....I've been sitting here waiting for hours!" She couldn't wait to get in the bedroom and flop on the bed with me! Then coming to work this morning I felt like I hadn't been home at all!

Double 0 Heaven...

Well, despite a rotten cold, I managed to sniff and snuffle my way through Skyfall, the latest Bond epic(apologies to anyone in the cinema who may suffer later from my selfishness!)

I'm sure we all remember the delicious Daniel Craig in Casino Royale...reproduced here just for the sake of gratuitous eye candy...

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Then there was the grand Royal Premiere of the new film at the Royal Albert Hall, just along the road from where I work....just to give you an idea of the scale of the Hoo Ha, here's a very bad picture taken from the roof of our building, by a very kind (and tall ) young man who leaned precariously over the parapet to get it. The whole road was closed off for the whole day.....

So we come to Skyfall....on general release now (as they say)

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I thought it was great. Back to the quality of Casino Royale, although I would say that Casino Royale might still be marginally better.  I recommend a viewing, there's a twist at the end, that I'm not going to tell you as I would have to kill you if I did.  But my friend and I turned to each other and said "Well...they kept that under wraps, didn't they!"

Enjoy!