Nessun Dorma at the Park

Tonight my friend Jared and I went to the Met Summer Concert in Prospect Park and I must say that the whole evening turned out to be my favourite night of the Summer thus far.

We started out by walking around the park from PLG to Windsor Terrace where we had dinner in the Windsor Cafe and then walked over to the lawn where the concert was already in progress.

The concert began at 8 and we got there a little bit after 9 there were three songs left in the program. Angela Gheorghiu was singing Un Bel Di Vedremo as we took our seat on the grass under the pleasantly cool night sky. She has rather lovely tones and was very expressive. Then there was a selection from the The Met's Chorus and then a duet with both Angela and her husband, Roberto Alagna. They were very fun and playful with each other it was a joy to watch.

And then they sang about 30 or so minutes of encore. It was really quite a treat. He did Nessun Dorma and it was really splendid. They did O Sole Mio and then sand in English It's Now or Never and many others. They had a great time and it showed.

And what was really so wonderful about the evening was that everyone else had a great time too. Regular Met goers schlepped out to Brooklyn, my fellow Brooklynites brought their kids and their loved ones and their wine and sat under the night sky and took it in. It was beautiful. All of that wonderful music in that familiar and distinctly NY landscape. I felt very sure, tonight, that NYC was the best city in the entire world and I was over the moon with the pleasure of being able to live in it and experience it first hand.