The opera house is pretty amazing and we were looking forward to a warm soft evening enjoying our buffet before the performance and looking at all the people who bring picnics. They provide great facilities. However, that was not to be as we had the most incredible thunderstorm and the loudest cracks of lightning I've ever heard right above us in the hotel plus torrential rain. It did ease off so we went in the end and there was still food at the buffet and since we were the last to arrive and the only people at our table we had two bottles of wine at our disposal. In the end the whole evening was very enjoyable if a bit cool.
Not the sort of photos I was hoping to take....