Riverside Theatre - Western Sydney Opera
Yesterday we went down to
Parramatta to see our friends
Lorenzo Rositano and
Aimee O'Neill singing some well-known Italian operatic arias and other Christmas songs in
Ciao Compare - an Italian Christmas. Parramatta was very busy on a Friday evening, after work, with many Christmas parties being held in the numerous restaurants dotted along eat street. Ken and I shared a pizza in
Bondi Pizza as that was about the only place we could find to have a meal, not having previously booked a table. Our pizza was delicious, even if we were sitting outside along the footpath open to all the fumes from passing cars, buses and fire engines! There was a real buzz and vibe along
Church Street as office workers joined the milling throng and we marvelled at the number of people traipsing up and down the footpath, many in party mood!
Ciao Compare - an Italian Christmas. Some familiar songs were O Sole Mio, That's Amore, Volare, Arrivederci Roma, Panis Angelicus, The Holy City and Nessun Dorma from Turandot.
We saw this Christmas tree, on our way down to the Theatre, outside the
Town Hall and opposite St. John's Cathedral. There is so much building going on in
Parramatta and here you can see another high rise on the way up.
Beautiful
Aimee O'Neill, after the show, in the foyer of
Riverside Theatre chatting to us. She sang one of my favourite arias,
Pie Jesu by
Andrew Lloyd-Webber.
Our friends
Trish and
Rhonda were also at the concert and we caught up with them in the interval and after the show. Trish and I posed for this photo with Aimee, after the show, in the foyer.
Here is
Lorenzo Rositano chatting with Trish and Rhonda in the foyer after the show. You can just see
Glenn Amer in the background. Glenn accompanied Lorenzo and Aimee on the piano and also sang many songs, accompanying himself and also sang duets with Lorenzo and Aimee. He is multi-talented!
4 comments:
That sounds like a very pleasant evening. There is high rise going up everywhere. I was shocked when I visited some parts of Sydney I previously lived in.
I wouldn't like to live in a high rise apartment. I think we were lucky growing up in our own single storey house on our own block of land. The children these days seem so deprived.
The contrast between the cathedral and the new building is what particularly draws my eye. I prefer the cathedral.
Yes I also prefer the old stone buildings but the high rise buildings are springing up everywhere.
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