Hair of the dog
On New Year's Day, WNET/Channel 13 will broadcast all six operas comprising the first season of Met HD simulcasts. As you stagger home from your year-end revels, you can tune in to The First Emperor at 5:00 AM, followed by I puritani at 8:00 and Il barbiere di Siviglia at 11:00. Following a nice long nap and (one hopes) a hearty portion of hopping john, you can enjoy The Magic Flute at 9:30 PM, followed by Il trittico at 11:30 and (believe me, this is worth staying up for) Eugene Onegin at 2:30 AM January 2.
Those of you not living in New York should check your local listings. And you'll have to cook your own hopping john.
Those of you not living in New York should check your local listings. And you'll have to cook your own hopping john.
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Darn - KCET in Los Angeles doesn't seem to be doing this Met marathon. Agree completely with La Cieca: that Onegin is worth staying up for. I have been waiting for that come to local PBS.
Except for Stephanie Blythe's outstanding Frugola and Prinzipessa, I was disappointed in the Trittico, but I'd like to see it again to hear her once more.
Just curious to know, how many of you out there are going to get up at 5 a.m. to listen to "The Last Emperor"?
Well, I'll finally get to see a Netrebko performance. The Barbiere was fabulous. Joyce Di Donato is terrific as Rosina, and Juan Diego Florez... another tenor who could serenade me forever.
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Description:
4 each bacon slices
1/4 cup onion, diced
1/2 each bell pepper, diced
1/2 each red bell pepper, diced
2 cups black-eyed peas
2 cups water
1/2 cup rice
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blythe is worth a view of that tripe trittico, worse reading I ever saw, except for Steph.
the rest? I'll pass/
JATM2063: The First Emperor is actually rather appropriate as an early morning broadcast; its incessecent banging will wake anyone up as well as their entire neighbourhood!
Steven
The Mad Scene
Did anyone else notice that in Anthony Tommasini's review of Hansel and Gretel, he refers to Rosalind Plowright as "the veteran mezzo-soprano"? When did she become a mezzo?
Oops, according to her website, she has returned to the mezzop repertoire with which she started her career. She is now singing Amneris. Back to the original topic, kids.
And the "veteran" part of course refers to her gallant military service in the Great War.
dnitzer: There would have to be a certain level of culture (higher than that found in frozen yogurt) present here in order to make the marathon viable. Sadly, I think we would be the only two Angelenos watching Hvorostovsky at 2 am.
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olivia:
I guess the only thing remaining for us Angelenos on New Year's Day then, is to indulge the new Jones production of "Hansel and Gretel Drop Acid" at the local movie theater...
Yes, Blythe was impressive in that Trittico but there was much more. Frittoli Angelica, to begin with, Guleghina in one of her best role, those wonderfully drawn characters in Schicchi, etc. Overall, the best watchable Trittico available out there.
Alex:
Those are more reasons why I would like to see the Trittico again - to give myself something of a reality check, I think. Frittoli sang very nicely, I thought at the time, but she didn't move me - the whole Angelica production left me oddly indifferent in fact (and it's one of my favorite operas). I couldn't put my finger on why I reacted as I did (or more accurately, why I had no reaction at all). Guleghina and Licitra were loud and more or less on pitch most of the time, but that was about it - I didn't feel any tension or chemistry between them. All I can remember a year later is being more disappointed than excited at the end of that telecast, and thinking Blythe stole the show(s). Maybe my memory is getting bad, maybe my expectations were too high, but I don't recall specifics of it other than that it didn't do as much for me as I had hoped. But I'm willing to have another go at it.
Thank god for DVR! No need to get up at 5am for the Emperor or to stay up until 2am for the Onegin!
Are you really going to DVR the Emperor? Let alone watch it.
d, I'd probably still like it more than the live stuff I've seen at LA Opera this year. Thank goodness San Fran is only a 6 hour shot up the PCH.
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I DVRed The First Emperor the first time it was on PBS and have still been meaning to get around to watching the second act. It's not that I found it so bad; it's quite watchable.
Query: What is everyone's favourite of last year's HD cinecasts? I enjoyed them all but my favourite is, without a doubt, the Onegin. I love that production and the cast (especially Hvor/Fleming/Vargas) was sensational. I think I've watched the final scene around 20 times (and my heart gets racing everytime).
I just watched the last hour of The First Emperor. I didn't think I was going to like it, but I have to say that I was impressed. The words were fairly intelligible and the music was melodic. Since I came in near the end, I didn't quite get the story. The production was gorgeous. I rather enjoyed it. And I thought the chorus was terrific. I'm taping Puritani because I have to work. Oh, and I liked Pual Groves and Domingo a lot.
I just watched Zauberflote. Oy, vay! Tacky, tacky, tacky. The Queen of the Night was spectacular, but someone very gay was at work on this production, else how to explain the Three Dames using the "cage" from Papageno's codpiece to lock his mouth shut? It brought back all of my auto-fell... well, it brought back a lot of my fantasies. And as unified and spectacular Taymor's Lion King was, that's how bad I thought this production was; thank heavens it wasn't full length. It was as if every idea she's ever had was on that stage. There was Alice In Wonderland, Noh, Kabuki, post-modernism, space-age, all combinded in one production.
On the news front, United Airlines grounded all of their flights yesterday, after receiving conflicting instructions from the semiphore crew behind the Queen.
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