An excurision to Zwolle is not as boring as it sounds...

Here I am again,

From the title you might understand that this post is about our excursion to Zwolle on the third of December. All the people from our class were supposed to go to Zwolle, to see the final rehearsal of the opera that our music teacher, Mr. Weisser, had composed. Unfortunately, some of the people in the class did not come because they thought that they were not obliged to. But, I have to say, that on the excursion I did not mind, because the nciest people from the class were with us.

We departed from Hilversum by train. On the railwaystation we met Mr. Weisser's wife, Sylvia. She was very kind and in the train to Zwolle we had pleasant conversations. When we arrived in Zwolle we met with Mr. Weisser, and walked to the theatre. We first sat in the foyer, and talked to the boss of the theatre for a while about opera in theatre.

When Mr. Weisser stepped in, we went with him to the theatre itself. I was suprised by the size of the theatre, for it was quite small. We sat on the chairs, and the performance began. The genre was, to my opinion, contemporary classical music, with a lot of influences from the jazz. I must say that I enjoyed the opera, and especially the intensity with which the lead sang her part.

After the performance, we talked with all the members of the orchestra, as well as with the director and the set designer. They latter explained to us their intentions with the design of the setting and the entire feel around the opera. The musicians showed us their instruments and told some things about their part in the score.

After the opera, we ate at an italian restaurant. we all sat together and it was really nice. The food was nice too, and so we sat in the train home with a nicely filled stomach. in the train we found the director of the play too, and we had great conversations on all kinds of topics, while I was also writing poems for the St. Nicolas celebration. They were not for my own, but for the presents of classmates, which they were going to give to their friends.

When we got off at Hilversum again, I felt that I had a really nice day. We found Christine's bike had been stolen, and so we took her on the ack of our bieks and cycled home. i felt the excursion was great, and the people that did not come really missed something!