PART 3: Feb.19, 2007.

10am: free tickets to a Carnegie hall rehearsal of Francesco Cilea's L'Arlesiana.

12.30pm: Carnegie Hall is FREEZING cold -- I head out to Fifth Ave. to look @ expensive stores, and buy inexpensive Pashmina's.

3pm: arrive @ Cornelius' apartment, observe Christi's lesson.

4pm: my lesson.

6.30pm: Applebee's.

7.30pm: the Met. Verdi's Simon Bocanegra

We had to leave a bit early, and went through a door marked exit...and into a deadend hallway that smelled like weed. THE ONLY WAY OUT was an emergency exit -- and we didn't want to be the idiots to set off the alarm. FORTUNATELY, someone let us back into the theatre, and we left through the front doors.
Christi headed to the Port Authority Bus Station to book it back to Baltimore, and Tony & I headed home to Elizabeth's.

I was reeling from the Cornelius experience (it was unreal), and the opera.

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tomorrow: we make friends with lady Liberty...