Eugen Onegin - Göteborgsoperan

Written the 22nd April 2011

Yesterday evening (at 19.30 pm) the new premiere of Pjotr Tjajkovskij's opera Eugene Onegin, was shown in Gothenburg .
Excited, dressed up in the finest dresses and expensive jewelry, we arrived to the biggest disappointment .!


The music was very beautiful, it's amazing what powerful voices that can come out of those people . But the colors were so sad and boring, black, white, gray, about 2-3 men i green and a single woman in yellow . Yes, that was the oh så 'brilliant' colors of this opera .
The play was also very long-drawn, especially after they had removed the ballet .! ( Disappointed .? Yes please .! )It starts great, perhaps because we, at that time still has an interest . But when Tatjana (played by Carolina Sandgren) begins to sing about her big love for Onegin it all just goes down the hill .!
It felt like she sang for several hours . All alone on the stage . This one beautiful woman in a gray dull, white furnished house, with a background of birch trees . I am almost sure, that when the curtain went down for the break, all applause with the joy of getting out .
Frankly, I think that the play is quite confusing . In 1,5 hours we sit and almost fall asleep while Tatjana sings - Yes of course it was beautiful, but couldn’t we get some beds instead of the hard, red leather chairs ..? (there were plenty of space, but but,.. Here the day after, i'm still sore in the buttocks after the tour)When we came back from the break it was all just like chaos, chaos, chaos .! Bang bum .! Ball, duel, death, a new ball, I love you - Piss off . The end .!
Excuase me . What just happened here .? For those of you who are not familiar with this play, I will tell you the probably shortest tell of this opera . (I don't wanna totally spoil it for you who haven’t seen it yet)


Eugen onegin seduce Tatjana until she becomes completely in love with him (and sings about it for ages) When she confess her love, he simply says, no, I am not into you (not the exact words) Tatjana's best friend (Olga played by Ann-kristin Jones) and Onegin's friend (Vladimir Lenskij played by Nikola Matišic) falls in love . But at a bal, Onegin begins to seduce Olga as well . Lenskij get jealous and challenge Onegin to a duel . Lenskij dies . Onegin leave the country to travel around . Tatjana gets married to someone rich and classy guy . Then Onegin comes back, and when he sees Tatjana he discovers that he is in love with her . But now Tatjana don't wanna have anything to do with him .


The opera ends with a very fine duet,.. Except that it was suppose to be a beautiful aria, and she expressed herself so brutal as if it was from a play of war .
However, they get a small point . The two times the tendon was prepared for the bal, was very beautiful, the pretty dresses and the exiting dances . And even one time I am almost sure I saw some few remnants of ballet . It was just so sad, that even at the bal they were all in black and white .


I would definitely recommend you to see it .! Remember a pillow to sit on, a carpet for when you get tired and cold . And bring your own food, because one little piece of chocolate costs 17 kr .! (the last was no exaggeration)


But we can always rejoice that they had it much, much, much worse in the royal theater, Copenhagen :)

45 £ for weet toes

Is it just me, or was the amusement parks more fun when you were a child .?
Today I went to an Swedish amusement park named Liseberg, together with my sister an a friend . I actually cried . A single tear . 400 crowns on nothing .! We were there for 4 hours,.. Tried 4 rides and went half dead home .

The first ride was incredible .! Uppswinget, they've named it . It's like a big swing, over the mountain 'Oh my god .!' The kind of ride you wanna take again and again and again .!
The next was,.. We stood in line for 30 minutes .! For a ridde that takes 30 sekunds .! I closed my eyes and BOOM we were at the end .?? No wonder they call it The Konon .

I don't even wanna be remembered of the next . We ate waffles and took two baby rides . One of them was like a lot of swings driving around higher and higher . The next was that creepy ridde,.. Yes you all know it .! The one where the drive you into a dark room so you can look at singing dolls (except they did'nt sing) . My feet was hurting . I was freezing into the bones and God was Pissing on us .! Actually he's still doing it .

So thats how I ended up paying 45 £ for weet toes

Why is a raven like a writing desk .?

This riddle is famous, and it actually comes from the book Alice in Wonderland, by Lewis Carroll . Many people sit an wonder about the riddle and they don't understand it . Others finds wired reasons like
''Because there is a B in both and an N in neither .'' or like my friend Jakob, yesterday said ''both fly, except the desk'' . And it's all cute, but the answar is right there in front of you .! (or perhaps just for the one who read the book)

Alice is at the tea party with the March Hare, the Mad Hatter, and the Dormouse, when out of the suddenly the Mad Hatter poops the quistion ''Why is a raven like a writing desk .?''

"Have you guessed the riddle yet?" the Hatter said, turning to Alice again.
"No, I give it up," Alice replied. "What's the answer?"
"I haven't the slightest idea," said the Hatter.
"Nor I," said the March Hare.
Alice sighed wearily. "I think you might do something better with the time," she said, "than wasting it in asking riddles that have no answers."

The answer is that there isn't any answer .