Opera house

I have the great opportunity to go to the opera house here in Hanoi. It's a replica of one of the two opera houses in Paris. This building is beautiful and huge! The theater it's self was three stories high with all the original dark wood and the old chairs. There was a huge chandelier in the dome like celling. I went with my aunt and some couples from the church. We had seat in one of the booths to the right side of the stage.

 The first part of the performance was an orchestra and a choir. It was a great show, I had forgotten what an actual symphony sounded like, its been so many years! The opera singers, if girls all wore exquisite gowns of all different colors and the choir in the back wore a traditional Vietnamese dresses or suit like attire. They played a lot of well known music. This night was special because they had bamboo instruments! I have a video and pictures of what they look like. The second part was a ballet, the performer  had talent but the story line was a little weird I thought. They had a guy wearing eight inch heels and dresses, just a little funky.