PotC Drabble: "Water"

To salute the astounding PotC drabbles sprouting all over my flist at the moment, here is a first one from me *g*

Prompt: Water
Characters: Weatherby Swann, James Norrington
Rating: PG
Word Count: 100

Lots of thanks to the kind folks at rough_magic who helped me to spot un-english phrasings :-)

( Water )

Amsterdam Picture Spam - Or: The Adventures of the Musical Ignoramus Continue ;-)

Thanks to cavendish's friend R., a professed music nerd in every sense of the word, we got tickets to Robert Wilson's version of Madame Butterfly at the Amsterdam Opera House. What better opportunity to combine a marvellous cultural event with a grand day out. Being an interested lay person, I've seen quite a few operas over the last couple of years, but never one which was staged so artistically convincing. Both the minimalist stage setting with its background of subtly lighted silk as well as the singers' reduced, ritualized movements gave the whole performance the flair of a traditional Japanese painting. The singers' voices, especially the lead soprano and tenor were easily among the best I have ever heard. A whole different class than what I'm used to from the undoubtedly solid "Deutsche Oper am Rhein".



( Amsterdam Picture Spam )