Does anyone actually use opera glasses?

Slow day on the OT

No, I'm usually in good seats, don't need em.

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Yes, I have two pair. Why?

I use them to admire the decolletage of the more attractive operagoers.

I wear them often to the Galaxies Opera House in the Uscru District--especially when Squid Lake is performed.

Several decades ago I was relatively poor and went to England on a business trip. Coming back, I spent several nights in London and got tickets for different plays sitting so high that I could see all the actors bald spots but never saw their mouths move.
One night I went to Covent Garden to see the opera Norma. My seat was the top of the back row, and to my right were serious students of opera who watched through opera glasses in one hand and the other had turned the pages of the libretto.

I wish I had had opera glasses as it was the last performance of the season and all costumes and sets had been packed away and the entire cast were clothes in black choir robes and I could not tell who was who, and it was worse in crowd scenes.

I haven't seen them used in the US, but that may be because our theaters are designed for the audiences and really don't have nose-bleed seats.