My ticket fairy godmother has visited me in the night, hit me with her wand and is sending me to the ball... okay, the Ravinia Gala tonight, featuring Placido Domingo. I debated going all week, but by the time I decided to cough up the higher than normal pavilion seat price, the cheap(ish) ones were all sold out! And I didn't want to pay the higher than normal lawn ticket price, to sit there by myself and watch Himself on a large video screen (which they are using for the poor schlubs on the lawn for this concert). Good thing, too, because it's totally going to rain.
Enter a former colleague of mine who decided they don't want to go tonight (????) and is giving me tickets to everything - pavillion, dinner and cocktails. I've been beautifying all day in preparation.
More to come, but I am very very excited to see Placido. He's probably my favorite of the Three Tenors (even though Luciano Pavarotti is from my family's home citta of Modena, Italy). I don't know how many more chances there will be to see him live (and I passed up my chance to see him in the Ring Cycle at Lyric a few years back. Nobody could make me want to see Wagner. Nobody.)
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