Minor Verdi (Attila) at the city's national theatre. ($5, deep balcony) Excellent programming choice, apparently the full symphony orchestra in the pit, capable soli, large chorus. The sort of country-house stand-and-deliver Verdi that you might have heard at the beginning of the last century in a regional Italian house in a city of decent size, which is to say, a far more worthwhile evening than you'd probably have at one of the international houses with everything over-designed and planned. The essence of Verdi. Much like Shakespeare, it is the psycho-physical condition of the singers, demonstrating the revolutionary practice of freedom. Some clear local meanings in the staging, to be developed at too much length in a proper reflection TK.
