The first concert I made an appearance at was, The Merry Wives of Windsor. I arrived with little expectations of what I was about to see but with hopes of something enjoyable. When I arrived at the Ford Center, I was impressed with the overall environment and the audience. The men where in sports coats and the women in long dresses. It was not too crowded with plenty of extremely comfortable seating. Before the curtain was pulled the orchestra played slowly for sometime. After a few moments the large drape was pulled back reverting a rather bare stage with basic props. It had two straightforward door frames, one located on each side of the stage used for each scene. At first I had trouble understanding the characters while they were singing but the spoken dialogue in-between clarified what was happened. While the characters sang, the orchestras background music muffled their voices but on a positive note, the music was extremely clear. The first act opens with two woman who have discovered that they have both received the same love letter. They then begin their planning in hopes to get back at the gentlemen who sent the letters. While these two woman are conspiring a plan the men of the town come into play. They are all asking the hand of marriage of a young woman, the woman is in love with one particular man, while her parents are both torn between two other men they wish to see her offer her hand. During the opera portions of the play I tried to identified each character. I came to the conclusion that; the character Mrs. Alice Ford, played by Tara Tanner and the character Anne Page, played by Katherine Edenfield, were both the soprano singers. I also concluded that; the character, Fenton played by Charles Moore along with the character Slender, played by Kyle Davis were both the tenors. Along with classifying the cast I tried my best with identifying each musical instrument. While listening I identified multiple wind instruments su