Patty's weekend
I confess a mild attraction to Patricia Racette. I saw her today in Peter Grimes on the Met Simulcast. Warm eyes, beautiful skin, and she has an honest midwestern kinduva radiance about her (even though she's from New Hampshire). But oh to get home and discover that I wouldn't be her type. Moving along, I'm not sure how I feel about seeing opera in a movie theater. Hmm, 'underwhelmed' might be the word. I went to one of those google-plexes with all the modern technological advantages, but the sound was limp and lifeless. The picture wasn't as clear as HD should be, but that could also be because of Doyle's stark production. The extra interviews and awkward Natalie Dessay interstitials were amusing, but $22 worth? It's great exposure but a pretty second-rate experience. Still, I'd go again and so should you. Tristan's playing next weekend.
I was wondering about the "experience" of those Met simulcasts. I'm going to force everyone to go to one of those soon. But we recently saw HGO's "The Magic Flute" so we've seen our opera production for the year....
Posted by: Perham1 | Monday, March 17, 2008 at 01:32 PM
The San Francisco Opera is taping some of their's and sending them around to movie theatres too. I 'saw' my first opera last Monday, La Rondine, and loved it, even though it's a chick flick. And about 50 people were there, which is very good for Lansing, MI on a Monday night.
The local performing arts center may be wondering why I never come to operas for real. But I think they'll benefit from this experiment since it's now on my radar as a potentially awesome experience.
Posted by: ab | Monday, March 17, 2008 at 09:38 PM
Bwahahahaha. Get with it, Manning! Racette's been on the other team forever. ; ) xoxo call me soon
Posted by: SMB | Wednesday, March 19, 2008 at 06:39 PM