Plainly seen: It’s hard to beat the Opera Box.
Four walls, with a door at one end and a window opposite.
Such a practically designed and perfectly confined room:
Just enough space for a seating of six.

This year we had the perfect mix:
Two Italians from Rome, their oft-visiting Belgian friends,
And then the two of us, Spoletini transients from the US.
Three languages, with one polyglot

Sharing short stories between acts:
Learning more about the (opera) company, at times by pretending
To know less than what U should have prepared for on the big test.
Such a refined idea, the opera box!