This trip was amazing, the most life changing trip I’ve been
on. I can’t believe how much we got through in only three weeks. It started in
Salzburg with Mozart’s Birthplace, chamber dinner in St. Peter’s Abbey and Tchaikovsky’s
Swan Lake. I fell in love with the beauty of this place and have every
intention of going back to this place that felt very much like home. Then in
Vienna we had the Vienna Philharmonic concert, Coronation Mass with the Vienna
Boys choir, Schonbrunn Palace, Strauss’s Der Rosenkavalier, Lippizaner horses
training, Mahler Chamber Orchestra, the graveyard, Rossini’s Barber of Seville
and the Symanowski Quartet. Vienna was amazing, there was always something to
do. Exhaustion doesn’t even seem to be a fitting enough word for how I felt
after a day in Vienna. Then we made our way to Bratislava where we learned
about Haydn and his head issues, the Eszterhazy Palace, Slovak Philharmonic
Orchestra, and Krutnava. This is also the lovely town where fish ate our feet
and ice skating was more of a death sentence then a leisure activity. Finally, Prague. Here there was the piano,
organ and harpsichord concert, Madame Butterfly, the Jewish Quarter, the dinner
cruise on the Vltava River and the Czech folklore show and dinner. Prague was
interesting, so many sights and so much beauty and history. We saw many, many,
many performances in only three weeks. I’m sitting here trying to figure out
how we even managed to see and experience so much in such an amount of time.
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