Hugged by a Valkyrie

A night at the opera is quite something when the opera is Wagner's Die Walküre which even in the concert hall had to start at teatime to get us home before midnight. We arrived early outside the Usher Hall to be greeted by one of the Valkyries, Madeleine, whom we first knew when she was 2 and all the world was considerably younger.

The fantastic performances of singers and orchestra were enhanced for me by having the English words on an overhead screen. At last I feel I have some understanding of what was going on - unlike the time, many years ago, when I went to two performances in a week and didn't understand it at all.

It's a long sit, though, Hoyotaho!