Vienna, Austria: Artistic Genius

The day begin with a delicious breakfast of coffee and apple strudel, an Austrian specialty....yum.  After that, Janine and I explored the Albertina, a museum featuring art from the Impressionists (Monet was my favorite) up through contemporary (no pictures allowed, hence the strudel shot).

After the museum, we came back to get ready to go to the big show, an orchestral performance of a medley of Mozart compositions at the famed Vienna Opera House.  The show was wonderful!  The acoustics in the venue are amazing (no mikes, even for the singers), the orchestra's balance was superb, their flautist was truly a virtuoso, and they even used the variations of instruments that were historically accurate to the age of Mozart.  A little Strauss thrown in as an encore made our night was complete!

The shot above is outside the opera house after the show.  It's a little dark, but the building was actually very artistically lit up, making it a pretty end to a lovely night.