On the second day of the carnival, there was a parade with lots of marching bands and floats devoted to this years theme- Right vs. Wrong.....
The volcano, and the chaos it caused was a common theme....
This was a pirate ship (pirating music.... I thought it was clever, the ship was called the Napster)
After the parade, we all went to the circus! It was such a great show, and all the performers and organizers were students- I recognized a few from orchestra.
The show was complete with live music (orchestra above the circus sign...) featuring arrangements of Mozart and Bizet operas, as well as other classical works and several pop songs. There was a storyline (mime falls in love with clown, evil woman steals him away and mime searches for her lost love....) that went through the whole show.
And they had an electric violin player, which was cool. Overall it was such a great show, we were all really glad that we got tickets early (they had to get extra benches out to make room for all the people who came).The festival basically shut down the city for the weekend, the streets became public walkways and there were more police officers there than I've seen in my whole 5 months here in Sweden. There was a lot of energy in the city, and it was great to see all the people who came from all over to experience karnevalen.
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