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Purple eyes at the Opera

This is definitely not green, but purple, as in royal, bruising, and outfits, and I couldn’t resist sharing! 

My husband and I were fortunate to be invited to the grand opening of the Royal Opera House Muscat last month (the capital of the Sultanate of Oman, where I lived for 10 years).  And ‘grand’ it was.

The day before flying out I tripped on an uneven paving stone in DC and fell flat.  My glasses did a number on my face, but didn’t break, and amazingly the rest of me was fine, but by the day of the opera I looked like a raccoon.  Thank heavens for a kind fellow guest with concealer.  And I wore my dark glasses a lot.  At least my purple “eye shadow” matched my opera outfit!

 

The Royal Opera House Muscat was stunning. You can see for yourself in 

this video from CNN, and experience a bit of this country I love. 
The production of Turandot excelled anything I have ever seen.  The set was designed by Franco Zeffirelli who is now 88 (and who stayed in our hotel), the orchestra and opera company were flown in from Verona,  and Placido Domingo, legendary tenor and general director of the Washington National Opera, conducted.

 

The most famous aria from Turandot is the beautiful Nessun Dorma, which any soccer world cup fan will recognize from Italy's 1990 theme song!

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
We were thoroughly pampered at the Bustan Palace Hotel which was built while I lived in Oman in the ‘80s, and recently renovated.  

Al Bustan Palace Hotel Muscat, Sultanate of Oman, Ritz Carlton hotel in Muscat

 


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

They relocated a fishing village along the beach, which in retrospect, was probably great for the villagers.  New, attractive, modern homes were built to replace the simple and much harder to maintain mud brick dwellings which stood where the hotel gardens are now.

 

That was quite a trip!

 

Coming soon:

How to weatherize your home for weather extremes,

My impressions of this year's Solar Decathlon in Washington DC,

and

Clarks Shoes - built-in obsolescence? 

 

Until the next time,

Carol

Founder and CEO

www.greenvillagegreen.com

 

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