{"id":461,"date":"2010-05-30T09:09:09","date_gmt":"2010-05-30T14:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/?p=461"},"modified":"2025-05-30T20:19:25","modified_gmt":"2025-05-31T01:19:25","slug":"im-in-lvov-lvov","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/2010\/05\/30\/im-in-lvov-lvov\/","title":{"rendered":"I’m in Lvov Lvov"},"content":{"rendered":"
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At the Lvov Opera House for a performance of Verdi’s “Il travatore”<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

May 29, 2010<\/em><\/p>\n

Professor Pana was right.\u00a0 I was in love with Romania. But that was yesterday’s news.\u00a0 And today I’m in Lvov, Ukraine (not the Ukraine), and I’m in Lvov with a new city.<\/p>\n

Part of my joy comes from just being allowed in the country.\u00a0 With some free time in the airport in Timisoara, I thought I ought to do my homework on Lvov.\u00a0 I read a guide online, which stated that the city is underappreciated because foreigners need a visa to visit Ukraine.\u00a0 Sweat started to roll down my face, as I envisioned spending two days at the Lvov airport, unable to enter the country because I hadn’t applied for a visa.\u00a0 I wondered whether I could get one if needed at the airport, or whether I’d have to spend the time till my flight Monday in the never-never land in front of the customs desk.\u00a0 Happily, the web was incorrect (there’s a lesson there for all you believers in electronics!), and I made it to the hotel.\u00a0 And relieved because the airport, one of those Soviet-looking Stalin buildings (too much to tear down, said our Poland guide) had no amenities.<\/p>\n

Then there was the second treat.\u00a0 The hotel I’m at is the Opera, across from a turn-of-the century (20th) palace of the arts, the Opera House.\u00a0 I inquired if there were any performances tonight. The concierge replied that the opera starts at six (it was 5:30), but he’d inquire.\u00a0 He called 5 minutes later to tell me I had a ticket (for around 8$).\u00a0 It was main floor for Verdi’s “Il Trovatore.”\u00a0 For those of you who know Verdi’s Anvil Chorus, it’s from that opera.\u00a0 The building itself was worth seeing, a beaux arts construction with about 1000 seats.\u00a0 It sits on the main river through town, which was concreted over and diverted underground.\u00a0 The performance was excellent.\u00a0 A dinner of vareneky (dumplings), TV with the locals to watch the Kiev-Romania match, and I’m a happy camper.<\/p>\n

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May 29, 2010 Professor Pana was right.\u00a0 I was in love with Romania. But that was yesterday’s news.\u00a0 And today I’m in Lvov, Ukraine (not the Ukraine), and I’m in Lvov with a new city. Part of my joy comes from just being allowed in the country.\u00a0 With some free time in the airport in … Continue reading “I’m in Lvov Lvov”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-romania-and-the-western-ukraine-2010"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=461"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9184,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461\/revisions\/9184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}