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rebel without a cooze

by | 8:37 am | Oct 9, 2008

Although the staging of the Met’s Saturday afternoon’s production of Salome will remain unchanged (i.e., Karita Mattila intends to jam out with her clam out) the HD cameras will demurely divert their lenses at the climactic moment of the Dance of the Seven Veils.  According to Culture Monster, instead of the Full Mattila, the video audience will see “something, well, much more restrained.”

“You’ll see the camera pan away from her as she does the dance,” a Met spokesman told Culture Monster. “Either it will pan discreetly away to the audience, or it will do a close-up of her face.”

The decision not to show the nudity came from Met general manager Peter Gelb, who, the spokesman said, “decided early on that the ‘Salome’ broadcast would not feature nudity.”

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  • High C's @ 4:20 says:

    Id be pissed to pay good money to see Mattila jam out with her clam out, and then discover she was only workin her merkin…

    on October 11, 2008 at 5:13 PM
  • Dominatrix says:

    Thanks for the info. on Vera West. Seems she did a lot of famous horror films, including The Wolf Man. Here’s a column I found on her life and death, involving some kind of mysterious blackmail leading to suicide. Don’t think we’ll ever know what happened — most of the people from that era are gone. http://www.thefanzine.com/articles/columns/3/vera_west

    on October 11, 2008 at 9:12 PM
  • pavel says:

    NYCOQ -- that Washington Salome with Ewing was also one of my mileposts on the way to opera royalty! For my subscription performance I was sitting in the first row and got sprinkled by sweat at the end of Ewing’s dance. Went back for two more performances standing room. I’ve never been the same since.

    on October 11, 2008 at 10:11 PM
  • Oralia Copulacion says:

    I shoulda read this thread first.

    I was shocked when they cut away.

    What, we bay $24 bucks for 90 minutes of music, and all we get is a little bit of boobage?

    Karita! What is this about?

    A certain British diva screeched her way through the role and then went full frontal on camera. And you can’t let them get a half-second glimpse?

    Even a well-timed fan or balloon….

    on October 12, 2008 at 3:29 AM
  • Thackeray Gnomey says:

    Oralia, when you refer to a ‘certain [screeching] British diva’, are you referring to Maria Ewing? She maybe have been married to British national treasure (and slimeball) Sir Peter Hall, but Wikipedia tells us she was born in Detroit, Michigan.

    on October 12, 2008 at 4:22 AM
  • mrmyster says:

    Last screeching British diva I heard was Janice Watson, sadly enough for when she first started it was a first rate sound. All gone now.

    on October 12, 2008 at 4:35 PM
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