where will the elite meet?
Now that single tickets are available for purchase by Met season subcribers, and as the NYCO continues to dribble out details about casting, it’s time for La Cieca to start organizing her social diary for the opening of “The Season.” Where will Le Tout New-York be tooting this time around, cher public? Let La Cieca know in the poll after the jump.
Please note that you may vote for more than one “must see” operatic experience — if you can find any in the following list.
I will be in town for the prima of Anna Bolena.. opening the 2011/12 season. Without question, I’m booking in a 4 star dinner with the great Cieca in advance at an establishment of her choice….
If only that Bolenna had a cast of Belcanto specialists, THAT would be a night to remember
I voted for Tosca because it is part of the Met’s Opening Night Gala. The elite, even those who don’t care about opera (like some random rapper or actor) tend to show up for Opening Night at the Met.
I would think that the most talked about story of the new season will be the fact that the Met will be replacing the Zefirelli Tosca. I think audiences will not be happy about that and there will be a lot of grumbling and bitching about that.
That Tosca has many detractors, but also many defenders and it is a link to the old establishment. Gelb will catch a lot of shit for that one. I will say that he will also replace that Boheme soon and that will be the straw that breaks the camel’s back for many.
I am not opposed to replacing any of them if the new productions have something interesting to say. I know Gelb is not an idiot and he has already started the PR campaign that the Zefirelli Tosca will be kept and revived for special occasions. I’m sure he will do the same with the Boheme and the Traviata when the time comes.
I think we might be witnessing one of the last Revival’s of Bob O’Hearn’s Rosenkavalier. This production is due to be replaced within the next 10 years. It will be a shame, since the production is beautiful in every sense; but it is also 30 years old and not in keeping with the new hipMet, so I will guess that Gelb might replace it soon.
I have a feeling that the Carmen will be a mess. Who designed the new production? What is the concept?
Where, oh, where is Lulu in your poll!? And, yes, I’m being serious.
Lulu is in the same place as Armida & Hamlet–that is, not until spring.
there is i think at least some element of scarcity implicit in the notion of a “hot ticket” … i think “esther” might have fallen into that category, but the koch is so cavernous tickets will never be hard to come by.
not that i have anything against cavernous kochs, mind you …
Lindoro–Whatever Richard Eyre comes up with, his Carmen can’t be worse than Zeffirelli’s—such a thing isn’t possible. I won’t shed any tears over the Tosca either, although it isn’t quite as imbecilic as the Carmen.
As for the Merrill/O’Hearn Rosenkavalier, a quick session at the abacus will reveal that it’s 40, not 30, years old. As fine as it is, the decades have lent it a certain old-man smell, and maybe it’s time to see something new. Except that in this case, the replacement will inevitably be worse.
I voted for Tosca and Rosenkavalier for many of the reasons already voiced. I’ll go to Tosca just out of morbid curiosity. Cannot for a second imagine Mattila as Tosca and the production is bound to upset Puccini’s soul.
The Met’s Rosenkavalier is a gem that I wished were duplicated instead of replaced. You simply cannot improve on the first two acts. And the cast – regardless of everything that has been said here about Fleming – is probably as good as you can get today.
Carmen and Gheorghiu fall in the same category as Tosca and Mattila, but my masochism has a limit. That one I will miss.
Tous les dix sont billets chauds.