Do it up

Last day of holidays...

so Pumpkin Spice Latte

in Starbucks

to cheer myself up :3

Difficult year before me.

I start my PhD studies

and still have last year

of Culture management..

Anyway. 

Pink it up :3

Shop it up :3

Shoes :3

Europeum and Chantilly

Yesterday I went with my best friend

to the new branch of  National Museum in Cracow-

Europeum

which aim is to present European art.

Well, I was really disappointed...

the museum is small

and everything it organised without any creative ideas.

They decided to sort paintings depending 

on topic not epoch,

but they were not able to make a story from it

so it just leaded to a chaos...

The only interesting idea

was to distribute postcards with

different portraits.

People could vote for the one which they would like to see

as a representative of the museum :)

After the museum we went 

to the newly open cafe Chantilly

close to Wawel castle.

It is such a nice place

with perfect location

(you can look at the castle

when sitting there)

and yummy cakes.

It is all decorated by paintings 

of Dominika Stawarz-Burska-

polish artist whose paintings look

like taken from the child's dream.

Really perfect place to relax 

with a friend, cake and coffee :)

You can check more artist's works here.

What I liked in Vienna

As I want to finish my Vienna post series

I will make one post about everything.

(or otherwise I would write about it for at least a few months xD)

So things I liked the best.

Not a report, but my fav list :)

1. Cameo, jewelry and gold decorations 

in Kunsthistorisches Museum

It looks like Lolita accessories xD

2. Bear museum

They were absolutely cute, their poses :3

3. Schonbrunn

Well, I absolutely fell in love with this place.

Visiting it was my child's dream coming true

so I can't even express my enthusiasm.

I loved gardens, interiors and carriages museum.

Taking photos inside was forbidden

so just a few pics from the outside.

With my friend on Gloriette; wind :<

Carriages

4.Sissi

My childhood idol.

Now I feel like getting obsessed about her again,

but in much more mature way of course.

I will probably write post about her 

(after reading enough books/ watching movies)

so I will only post this pic ^^

(oh my ribbons look badly here...)

5. Prater

Of course that Disneyland is much more better,

but still I had such a fun there!

Carousel with living ponies!

Maybe I don't look like that,

but I really like all hardcore roller-coasters.

Prater was not able to offer me enough emotions,

but still I drown myself in their attractions.

6. Decadence - Aspects of Austrian Symbolism

We were really lucky to be able to see this temporary exhibition in Belvedere.

I don't remember when last time any exhibition touched me so deeply

and I found my new favorite painting.

Well, this really needs an individual post.

7. Parks

always in order, clean, and with ducks :)

8. Details

In Vienna even Coca Cola is more stylish

9. Palmenhaus in Hofburg

In was so carefree to watch butterflies..

but just before going out we saw..

the death of a butterfly in a spider net...

I can only bow my head before the brutal beauty of this metaphor.

10. Opera

I already wrote about it

11. Cake and coffee

same here

It is not everything..

Oh, so difficult to choose a few things

when you are already in love with all city!

Tosca in Vienna

Continuing my Vienna spam..

Wiener Staatsoper :3

I will skip the detailed review

as I already wrote it in Polish (for my uni supervisor)

and don't feel like writing it once again.

Here I will limit myself to silly 'ah and oh' feelings :3

Vienna is really the city of classical music.

It is everywhere.

In Vienna opera really seems to be much more

popular and commercialized.

You can buy a ticket on the street.

You can also watch the live opera transmission

every evening on the screen which is situated on the building!

Such a magnificent idea!

We were going home one evening and we just stopped for a while 

to listen to Toreador's song from Carmen.

Oh gosh I want to live there!

You see how many people watch it.

We also visited Opera Museum

Here is me outside the Opera

We chose Tosca.

The cast was hanging outside and inside 

the building.

Interior

So beautiful.

Just after entrance you feel like being taken

to the other world.

Gold. Gold.

Here is the Tea Room

where Franz Joseph spent intermissions.

You can rent it for 500 euro/20 min.

+tea costs xD

Balcony

You can drink your intermission cafe here.

I absolutely love their toilets.

They had special room to check you make-up.

This is how the program looked.

Quite elegant,

but only synopsis was in English.

I like that you can choose the language of

your subtitles individually.

Shortly about the opera?

We chose classical Tosca.

Quite old, typical performance

with a wonderful cast (for this evening):

Marcelo Alvarez and Angela Gheorghiu.

I have never heard the tenor like him before.

He was easily reigning with his voice

over the orchestra.

She was a charming prima donna and innocent little girl

who killed when pressed to it.

Alvarez's E lucevan le stelle-

I will keep among my most beautiful memories.

You can listen him here

and angelic Angela here :3

The power of every masterpiece opera lies in the fact

that no matter how well you know libretto,

how many times you have watched the story

you will experience it once again

and finish with your heart half-broken.