Tonight, tonight, won't be just any night

A friend who is an opera singer is visiting from New York to sing with the Berkeley Symphony O.

In her honor, soprano light bulb jokes (totally lifted from the Internet - do you really think I knew any opera jokes?):

How many sopranos does it take to change a light bulb?

• One. She holds the bulb and the world revolves around her.
• Two. One to hold the diet soda and the other to get her accompanist to do it.
• Three. One to do it, her understudy, and one to say she could have done it better.
• Four. One to change the bulb and three to pull the chair out from under her.

You will win the opera lovers' prize if you can guess what kind of flowers I'm bringing.

Update:

Callas!  I brought callas!  Get it?

The performance was wonderful!  I've never heard Gaby perform, but because she's an incredibly lovely and generous person, of course I was going to say something nice no matter what she sounded like.  But the truth is - she has a really pretty voice.  Maybe I didn't know what a mezzo soprano is supposed to sound like.  I think "opera singer," and I think, loud, piercing, I think about that woman in our apartment building in New York who used to sing scales at the top of her lungs, causing other neighbors to shout out their windows, "Shut up!  SHUT UP!!" sending us into fits of giggles. 

But she was mellifluous and rich and steady and expressive...and such a pleasure to listen to. 

I'm an awful blogger, I forgot my camera.  But I got to sneak into her dressing room (there was no! Fiji!  water!) and look purposeful backstage, and I made her husband take pictures from the bottom of the stage so we'd have a Gabriela's Eye View.  I will post them when they become available. 

Gordon Getty introduced himself at the reception afterwards.  Not too shabby.    

Comments

[Vaguely Urban]

Oooh! is it G and BV? So exciting! Are you bringing her dyed daisies? So very NYC, and guaranteed not to exacerbate allergies!

[TasterSpoon]

It is! And both sets of parents came. Is that true about the allergies?