Last month we saw a flyer for a kids musical called D'Schatzinsle, or Treasure Island. We've been considering going to see it, but haven't gotten around to buying tickets for it (and probably won't be able to if you see below). Andrew Bond, an English-Swiss singer/songwriter whose songs are played in the Swiss kindergartens will be performing next Friday night, but we'll be celebrating a Raclette Thanksgiving with some friends. So, I looked at the Zürich Opera website and saw that they were going to perform the Magic Flute for Kids -- a kids length opera. According to the website there were very few tickets left, but we thought maybe it was a glitch in the system because it was behaving very slowly. So on Saturday afternoon I went down to the Opera House to ask them myself. And all of the kids' performances are essentially sold out (and I think that included Treasure Island). Yesterday I followed up and called about Wagner's The Ring Cycle for kids, and that's sold out too. However, the ticket seller said that they might be adding some kids performances in January, so now I get to check the Zürich Opera website every day to see if there's a new performance we can attend.
Who would have thought The Ring Cycle for kids in July would already be sold out! So, we're very slow at getting tickets in this town, there are a lot of people here and a percentage of them want to go to cultural events like this, and/or they don't put on enough performances to satisfy demand. Who knows? Now I have to determine how to find out about these events ahead of time.
Other than that we had a relaxing weekend. Friday night we had some Swiss friends over and Zürich Daddy Geek sent LGG to her room to play and she actually stayed there until dessert. While I was at the Opera House on Saturday, ZDG and LGG tried out a new pool. On Sunday we all went to another pool in the afternoon. LGG spent most of the time jumping off the diving board and ZDG and I took turns swimming laps.
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