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Post by Shoesy on Mar 22, 2009 9:21:54 GMT -5
I think I can hear you shouting for joy all the way from Italy. ;D Congratulations on getting your tickets.
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Post by geordy on Mar 22, 2009 9:46:45 GMT -5
That's karma, kismet, destiny, and all that good stuff! Which tickets did you get? Have you stayed at the Mansart before...I recall someone did?
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Post by afds on Mar 22, 2009 10:15:36 GMT -5
Yikes, all the way to Israel? Hastily turning down the volume now! Geordy, I have Balcon 107 and 108. I found an expert on another group (thank you, google) who explained that the upper balcony seats, which are cheaper, are uncomfortable but the balcon itself has the best seats in the house. Which explains why they were the same price as orchestre, I couldn't figure that out. So I took the plunge. I seem to remember Mez saying she'd had balcon seats and they were very good. Anyway, I will find out in July Mansart has very good reviews. There was a poster last year, goldenmama, who was thinking of booking there, but she hasn't posted for ages. It looks very attractive and has a good offer at the moment. I'm going to tell hubby it was kismet ;D .
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Post by kerouac on Mar 22, 2009 13:34:19 GMT -5
I had the honor, a certain number of years ago, of seeing a ballet at the Opéra Garnier from the presidential loge. The president of France has a permanently reserved loge in all of the national theatres of Paris (maybe all of the ones in France). At the time of François Mitterrand's presidency, the husband of a colleague of mine was part of Mitterrand's personal security staff (oh, how we loved the pots of caviar that he would bring back from all of the flights on the Concorde, because he was so sick of it!). Anyway, President Mitterrand had a list of all of the available theatre seats at his disposal, and any member of the Elysée staff could sign up to request what was of interest of them. One evening my colleague invited me to go with her, her daughter and a friend of her daughter to Opéra Garnier for a ballet (her husband would never have been caught dead there, not because he hated ballet but because he had to go to so many events all over the world that it was just unbearable work to him).
Anyway, it was an amazing experience, even though the presidential loge seats are not the best (it's interesting to hover over the edge of the stage, but seeing it from the left side at practically a right angle is not great). The strangest part was before the performance and during the intermission, seeing how many people look to see what incredible celebrity is hanging out in the presidential loge. Just us employees and friends! (Although with Sarkozy, who knows, now?)
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