My parents were gracious enough to invite us to watch Carmen (yup, that would be the opera) in Cannes. We started off by having a very nice dinner at their newly-decorated flat in Antibes, and then jumped into their Mercedes mini-bus and drove down to Cannes at great haste. We did just make it for the start of the performance, and I actually staid awake, for a change :-). Of course it was all in French and I basically had no idea about what was going on (spoken french I can understand kind of OK, but when it's sang...) - something about a girl working at a cigarette factory (this part I only heard from Mathilde later), playing hard to get in Spain. But in spite of that, it was good fun!
The cool thing was that the performance was at the Palais des Festivals - yes, that's the one that also hosts the Cannes film festival!
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