If you want to see a lot of rainwear, where do you go? To the opera!!! Quite unexpected!

It is a performance of Wagner's Der Fliegende Holländer from Covent Garden in London that has a lot of rainwear in the first act. 40-50 sailors (the choire) in rubber boots and yellow and orange rainwear, pants and jackets. It's only for about 5 minutes though. Der Holländer himself wears all the time downfolded hip waders.

Here are some pictures:

http://www.artrix.co.uk/TheatreDance/Der-Fliegende-Hollander-The-Flying-Dutchman--Royal-Opera-House-Live-Screening/2495
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01vqj0k
http://boulezian.blogspot.se/2015/02/der-fliegende-hollander-royal-opera-5.html
http://www.askonasholt.co.uk/news/peter-rose-and-catherine-wyn-rogers-return-to-the-royal-opera-house-for-der-fliegende-hollander
http://www.opera-online.com/en/items/productions/der-fliegende-hollander-royal-opera-house-covent-garden-2015

A slide show (full screen) here (only a few rainwear pictures). http://www.roh.org.uk/productions/der-fliegende-hollander-by-tim-albery

A trailer with a lot of talk but some pictures: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxmpTc3f_9w

For those of you that like opera, this is a good performance, see it! It was broadcast live all over the world via satellite. I saw it in Stockholm at a cinema theatre 24 February. Check your lokal cinemas (in bigger towns) if it is coming as a rerun. It does in Stockholm. Hurry! You only have one chance at the best.

Looks great - must be Guy Cotten raingear.

New opera with rain pants. The Swedish book Ålevangeliet (The Gospel of the Eel) has been turned into an opera that was played on the Folkoperan theater in Stockholm this spring. The whole choir had orange rainwear pants with bibs and braces. Here is a short trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doCIxS-8ABk

excellent links - all of them! wow!