In "The Bat", the libretto is sung and spoken in German, and even with 5 years of German under my belt, I didn't get much of it. Every now and then one of the characters, Prince Orlovsky, would break out into Russian at which point I could understand what was going on. In the operetta, Prince Orlovsky plays the part of an exceedingly wealthy 19th Century member of the Russian elite, living in the West, who'd made a fortune off the country's vast natural resources. There are of course no parallels whatsoever from that experience in modern Russian today.
Ramdom pictures from around the opera house.
The vaulted ceiling of the state opera house.
Irina looking serious.
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