Night at the Opera Print

Night at the Opera - With Valeria When I was going to elementary school I had a girlfriend, Valeria, we were just seven, I liked her very much, she was funny and really smart, with a peppery personality just like mine. When we were eight, her family moved to another town, since then we never have seen each other again. A few years later I would start dreaming about visiting Sydney, fascinated by the Opera House designed by Jorn Utzon. At the age of twenty-eight, I flew to Sydney with the only goal of taking the best picture I could of this architectural marvel, the first time my eyes laid on the Opera it was overwhelming, absolutely thrilling. I must have taken at least a thousand pictures that day. Little I knew that at that same time, Valeria was living there with her boyfriend and she was working as a chef in a restaurant by the harbour right in front of the Opera House. Twenty years since I last saw her, I took this picture from the balcony of that restaurant.