Freeport Opera House
One of the city’s few bastions of cultural enlightenment, the Freeport Opera House is a magnificent place to experience all sorts of entertainment. Despite its name, it hosts not only operas, but also a variety of stage shows, from concerts to recitations and plays, and everything in between. Prices for the shows vary widely; the wealthy can afford the best boxes, while the middle classes can vie for a spot in the nosebleed sections. A wide cross-section of Freeport’s inhabitants attends the shows—a cross-section of the lower end of the middle class to the top of the upper classes, that is—making this one of the few places where the wealthiest members of the community can attend the same occasions as the “less fortunate” without much fear of actually touching one another.
History
A consortium of aristocrats built the Freeport Opera House a century ago in an effort to bring some semblance of culture to Freeport. The Sea Lord at the time commissioned a new opera from one of the greatest composers of the day, Fiarella Donadrien. This ancient elven songstress poured so much of her heart and soul into the composition, it is said, that she died shortly after its first performance. Ever since, every time Donadrien’s masterpiece was played in the opera house, her ghost returned to listen to the tune. During the show, the ghost would hide backstage, swept up in the majesty of the notes; after the show was over, she would remain for a day and invariably kill a person or two involved in the current production (presumably the ones whose performances she didn’t like, or so the story goes).
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