JaneEH

Thank you, both, for the insights! Looking forward to seeing this beautiful city!

We'll be attending an evening show at the Operaen in Copenhagen next month, and I was wondering if anyone has any recommendations regarding the restaurants in the building? There appears to be a fixed-price dinner at the Bojesen, which looks very appealing, or else a la carte dining at the Cafe Ofelia.

We very much enjoyed dinner at the Tomaz (http://www.tomaz.nl/). Very cozy and authentic Dutch cooking. I had made a reservation online, which they honored even when we arrived about 30 minutes late because of travel delays (it was our first stop after arrival, while waiting for our lodging check-in). You also can't go to the Muziektheater and not visit the Puccini Bomboni chocolate shop very close by, which does offer breakfast/brunch as well (http://www.puccinibomboni.com/). Often, though, we simply popped into pubs on corners and were never disappointed.

Nijinsky was very enthusiastically received by Toronto audiences, fadedhour, and I believe the houses were quite full for most shows. Mr. Neumeier's Seagull had previously been performed by NBOC, and well received, so I think the audiences have absorbed enough of his choreographic vocabulary to "get it" and appreciate it. I was very fortunate to also see Mr. Riabko perform Nijinsky. He was extraordinary (as was Sonia Rodriguez in partnership with him: in fact, I found the whole cast really followed his lead, and the energy of that Sunday matinee was off the charts). What I found most extraordinary in Mr. Riabko's performance was his ability to make us, the audience, feel complicit in his/Nijinsky's destruction. There was a moment I still remember vividly when the audience burst into applause at some part of his performance and he madly came toward us, soaking it up, and you really felt how such a reaction was part and parcel of Nijinsky's descent into madness. Definitely one of those transcendent moments in art.