The series that has started tonight is wonderful and was filmed in late 2010. Perhaps it has been broadcast before, here or elsewhere, but if so, I missed it. I'm enjoying it now.

Don, you forgot that Opera companies also have dancers on some occasions. My dad sent me money for my birthday the first year I was living in New York City and told me not to use it for subway tokens or groceries, I was to do something I couldn't otherwise afford. So I bought a ticket on the grand tier to the gala performance of Smetana's The Bartered Bride. A comic opera with everything Don listed PLUS dancers. :)

My roommate went along, she was able to get a much less expensive ticket in the nosebleed seats. We were dressed up more than usual, and as I paused to shift my long skirt as we walked up the stairs to the mezzanine, Kris bumped into me and I in turn bumped into an older man standing with a few others on the stairs.

At that moment people started applauding. I looked down at the entering crowds and they were looking up. I looked up at the various balconies above us and they were looking down. And then I looked at the man I'd just walked into. It was Rudolf Bing. The next day I called mom and dad and told them "Guess who I ran into!"

SRS