Today was a travelling day so we spent the morning on the coach travelling the 340 kilometres between Sibiu and Bucharest.
When we reach our hotel in Bucharest we had the afternoon free before going to the opera that evening for the premiere of La Troubadour at the Bucharest Opera House.
Shortly after we reached our hotel room we heard some chanting outside and a demonstration was passing right under our window. We weren’t sure what they were demonstrating about but our guide advised us that it was about a Romanian child that was being adopted by a Romanian family but was ultimately adopted by a family from the United States after a court case. We do not know the full story but it all seems very sad.
We left for the Opera House at 6pm for the premier of the opera La Troubadour.
As we are not opera buffs we were not aware of the story and were only slightly more enlightened after the event. Some of our fellow travellers had seen it before and explained the plot but always ended up saying, it’s complicated. The opera house had a screen translating the opera from Italian into the Romanian language so this did not help us much.
That said the opera house was very picturesque although very hot. The singing, costumes and acting were all very good. Although not really our cup of tea, it is always interesting to go to something that we would not normally go to.
Tomorrow we have a free morning and then we visit the inside of the Romanian Parliament building before going to the airport for the flight home.