By Brooks Newmark
I have ended up on February 14 in Odesa, an old port city on the Black Sea in southern Ukraine. My wife Lucy flew out from London to visit me a few days ago. Amazingly the Opera and Ballet Theatre House in Odesa has just reopened, so we are going to see La Bayadere, a ballet by Ludwig Minkus. The opera house is famous for its Potemkin Stairs, made iconic in the film Battleship Potemkin. They sweep down to the waterfront and the Primorsky Boulevard which is a Riviera style promenade that makes you feel you are almost in Cannes.
