Okay - I need help! and coffee!

[lesyeuxverts]

Right ... so, I would like a European city that has an old opera house and a large river. Details would be lovely, too ... if you know anything about the city, or the opera house, or you know, generally useful details. I'm not necessarily looking for "Oh, the ----- Opera House is on ---- Street, just between the bakery and the library," but more along the lines of details useful for writing, you know. Are the chandeliers absolutely fabulous, is it entirely red velvet and gilt, has it been restored, etc.

If you have any brilliant ideas of what opera(s) that I might choose, that would be fabulous as well. Simply fabulous ... oh, I do heart you muchly, darling flist.

Also, has the genealogy craze happened in Europe? If you want to trace your ancestors back to, I don't know, the 17th century, is it possible? How would you go about doing it?

While you are being so terribly helpful, can you interpret my strange results and do all of my experiments for today so that I can write? Pretty please? :)

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Wroclaw Opera

[maireadinish.insanejournal.com]

I'm a fan of the Wroclaw opera house. Wroclaw is a city in southern Poland and is completely amazing (but I'm biased.) I found some pics:
http://www.ashra.com/pics/photos/wroc01.jpg

http://www.optocore.com/pics/service/pictures/1_OperaHouseWroclawIMG_3576.JPG

http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://a248.e.akamai.net/f/248/1229/1d/images.world66.com/th/e_/op/the_opera_house_gallerythumb&imgrefurl=http://www.world66.com/europe/poland/wroclaw/lib/gallery&h=139&w=185&sz=15&hl=en&start=12&um=1&tbnid=uO9gC4lLWEMI7M:&tbnh=77&tbnw=102&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dwroclaw%2Bopera%2Bhouse%26svnum%3D10%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26rls%3DGGLG,GGLG:2005-45,GGLG:en%26sa%3DN


Or, if you want a smaller venue, you can try the university's theater, but it's quite small:
http://www.hispaniaclasica.com/Imagenes/orquesta_leopldinum.JPG

The problem with the Claw is that it isn't a well known city outside of Poland. But it's a great city with lots of rivers, bridges, and the anonymous nature of the city might work for you.

Re: Wroclaw Opera

[lesyeuxverts.insanejournal.com]

Thanks for the links ... it looks really beautiful! You're so lucky to have been there!

I've switched around so many times that I hardly know what century I'm in anymore, much less what city ... but oh well, that's what editing month is for I guess. Whatever it takes to get to the point where there's something TO edit ...