A busy few days since our return from Edinburgh with a lovely visit to Devon (Brixham Theatre) where the sun shone and we had a lovely performance and very comfortable stay with old friends Cecila and Martin Potten in their lovely house overlooking the harbour.
Back to Salisbury and then to London for our big date in the Opera House as part of the Deloitte Ignite Festival. But first to important things! All our groups main ambition on coming to the UK is to see Tower Bridge. To get there, we travelled on a boat down the River Thames, alighting at Tower Pier, and fulfilling all ambitions with a number of excellent photographs. After a very good Italian lunch, we then re-embarked and on reaching the South Bank again, took a flight on the London Eye, by which time the skies had cleared and we had good views over the whole of the city in soft, evening light.
Back to the minibus and to the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden, to find that the performance (in the Paul Hamlyn Hall, formally the Floral Hall) had been sold out some time ago. The staging was extraordinary - a series of trees hanging from the ceiling on which were projected a moving light show. Difficult for us to appreciate from 'backstage' but I suspect very effective from the audience. What an amazing building! We brought all our costumes up to the hall in Europe's largest lift, designed to fit a pantechnicon with all the opera sets etc. What a pity we couldn't have brought the minibus up in it too! The performance was greatly appreciated by audience members we spoke to, and we felt very privileged to have performed in such a space.
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