![]() ![]() Not everyone does, unfortunately, sometimes because they couldn't care less, and sometimes because they just haven't thought about it (I feel another one of those famous "audience behaviour" threads coming on. I think a lot of people who are regular theatre/ballet/operagoers regard any breach of theatre etiquette as extremely bad manners, and expect everyone else to know better. Some people of a certain age and class (usually older middle-class women) seem to think that they have the right to complain the minute that something is not to their liking. I'm afraid that it isn't only the young who are rude. Birthday Offering and Noces wouldn't be a problem, I'd have thought.Īnyway, welcome to the forum, Marieve, and I hope you enjoy the performance in any case! I think you may lose a bit in Month if you can't see the facial expressions, but doubt it'll be that much: if it were MacMillan, I might say differently. I suppose it's going to depend, among other things, on how good your eyesight is. Bluebird (I don't know if that was her just posting while I'm writing this) is very good on the specs of such things. Some even use small binoculars (I have a x8 magnification pair which I find too much, but a x4 seems to work). Quite a few people in the amphi do use opera glasses. I was tempted to reply that if I fainted as a result and had to be carted out of there by ushers it would have disrupted his (and a lot of other people's) appreciation of the performance far more than me occasionally fanning myself!Īnyway, I'm getting a little off the subject here. Someone sitting in the front row of the stalls circle leant over and asked me, rather brusquely, to stop. I remember once, early on in my ROH-going career, I was in the rear stalls for some reason (in the days when I think they were lower down than they are now relative to the stalls circle), it was sweltering hot and I needed to fan myself so I could breathe adequately. That said, it's pot luck partly, anyway: some audience members are very sensitive to anything like that, while others are much more laid back. When using them, I usually try and keep my arms tightly in, and favour the left arm or right arm depending on where I'm sitting and where people are sitting behind me (trying to keep the view of the arm obliterated by my body if possible) so as to try not to cause any obstruction. I've had people lean forward in front of me to peer into the orchestra pit at crucial bits of the action and it absolutely infuriates me when that happens.Īs for opera-glass etiquette, I think you do need to be a bit careful, because arms can stick out (and so can binoculars). ![]()
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