Grex Music Conference Item 51

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krj

response 36 of 39:

Mar 15 22:24 UTC 2008

*Outstanding* performance of "Peter Grimes" by the Metropolitan 
Opera today.  A smaller crowd at the Quality 16, because Britten is 
less popular, but the performance was fabulous.

krj

response 37 of 39:

Mar 20 20:01 UTC 2008

Saturday is the Met's moviecast of Wagner's TRISTAN & ISOLDE, all 
5.5 hours of it.  The Met has had to use four Tristans and two Isoldes
to get through five or six performances in this run -- Tristan #4 will
appear for the first time Saturday.  The show has
had to be halted in mid-performance twice -- once when Isolde #1 
was taken down by an unhappy stomach, and once when Tristan #3 was on 
a piece of scenery which broke and send tumbling into the "prompter's box".
 
So, Saturday offers the potential of seeing a complete trainwreck!
But we will hope they pull it off.

jadecat

response 38 of 39:

Mar 20 20:29 UTC 2008

I was reading a New York Times online article (I think) about the
various problems that have cropped up with the Tristan und Isolde opera.
Something about one show having to employ three different Tristan's one
for each act?

krj

response 39 of 39:

Sep 17 04:56 UTC 2008

The 2008-2009 season of Metropolitan Opera "moviecasts" starts
on MONDAY, September 22.  They will be broadcasting the Met's opening
night, which will be a Renee Fleming gala.  There will be three 
fully staged, unconnected acts, to show off Ms. Fleming.  

As an opera buff I think this will be an interesting, novel experience,
but I doubt it would work for "the general public," who might 
prefer to see a story with a beginning, middle and end.

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