So this was a very short hiatus for me from this site. I just could not stay away. Now I am sure that many of you are dying to see what I look like drunk, but trust me, unless someone holds me down and makes me inbibe alcohol to the point of getting drunk, that is not going to happen. Instead, this past weekend, I got drunk, with the Elixir of Love!
Yes, I was one smitten kitten! I was lost in the waves of being swept off my feet, in desperate love, silly, senseless, and hopelessly thirteen sheets to the wind in love!!! And, I managed to stay in love for all of two hours!!!! Yes, for two hours on two different days, I was tortured, abused, made to beg, and even forced to threaten to fling myself into harm’s way for a skittish woman…ADINA!!! You know, after being in this opera, I have come to realize that there are many women out there JUST like her!!! I do remember a time in Prep School where I was in love with a certain girl, who just would not give me the time of day. To her, I was a boil on the butt of humanity…a hangnail…a smelly puppy who just refuses to go away, even after many a rejection! But that all evapourated soon after I went to high school. Her name, you may ask, was Trixi. Well, not really, but this is as cose to the name as I dare to write in here.
ANYHOO, I, Nemorino, was so into this woman, that, knowing that I am a total wimp, was willing to join the army, knowing that I would not last a day! I was content to die if I could not have her. It is amazing to me how much opera can mirror real life. Now, if we were to kidnap Nemorino, and tie him up gag him and throw him in a closet, and put MOI in as the opera’s tenor character in the story, this is what I would do:
Adina: Oh what an annoyance you are, only able to sigh!! Wouldn’t it be better to go home to your uncle, who is gravely ill?
Nemorino: His pain is nothing like mine. I cannot leave…many a time have I tried!
MOI: Listen honeybumplekins! Let’s settle this right now. Do NOT (*snap*) waste my time! If there isn’t a chance in h-e-doublehockeysticks that this…thing between will work, then say so! Otherwise, I will go so that you can work some other poor slob!
Adina: Tell me, what made you decide to go join the army?
Nemorino: Why? Because I intended to join so that I could improve my destiny.
MOI: Why? So that I could get away from you, you psycho!!!
Adina: Oh heck with the contract! If you believe in your heart, love with me true to you. So I tell you finally, you are dear to me. I love you!!!
Nemorino: You love me? The doctor did not deceive me!
MOI: Why is it that you had to take up THE ENTIRE OPERA to tell me that? You are SUCH a diva! No worse! SUCH A SOPRANO!!!!!!
See? I have this knack of cutting to the chase! Nonetheless, I had lots of fun, so much so that I actually giggled uncontrollably after each act. I was fit to be slapped, but I didn’t care. I was just having the time of my life! I AM an opera singer!!!! I love being an opera singer, and I cannot see myself doing anything else! I was BORN to do this!!!
Moi