Opera Memory: Barbara Campbell
by Syd
Approximately twenty years ago I attended my first opera at the historic Central City Opera House. I dressed up for the occasion and while en route was feeling very gratified in my new interest in opera. During intermission I made a trip to the ladies’ room. Upon my return, a number of other opera patrons kept glancing my way, and this scrutiny continued throughout the next act until the opera was over. Once the house lights came back on, I was horrified to realize that a piece of chewing gum had attached itself not only to the bottom of my shoe, but also to an embarrassing foot-long trail of stray toilet paper! Over the subsequent years this mishap has provided me and my friends with loads of chuckles when I recount my first opera experience.
