Broadcast season’s greetings
Just a reminder that parterre.com is your place to chat the light fantastic tomorrow at 12 noon, when the Met kicks off its 2009-2010 Toll Brothers Broadcasts with Il Trittico!
Intermission features will include interviews with Deborah Voigt, Stephanie Blythe, and Joseph Calleja!
Warm your fingers for chatting, which starts at noon. The music starts at 12:30.
For more info visit www.operainfo.org
Listening to the broadcast. Wishing La Cieca would comment about the broadcast thus far. Listening to Gelb talk- Is anyone getting tired of him talking all of the time. I wish he would shut up. Really, it would be the right thigs. His egotism is so out there. He would be wise and take in the criticism of his choices as opposed to twisting them around AS IF they are atually strengths. Spin master spin!
As mentioned above about the Dress Circle Boxes- these days they are fine, even if obstructed. I have as of yet not felt like I missed anything by being in those seats. But then again- the last new works have been dismal to look at.
Our diva heroine of the afternoon is sounding a bit
fatigued now, isn’t she, O Mio Babbino Caro being a
bit of a push. Her vibrato has loosened and she is
not able to float the modest demands of the top.
Pirgu is pushing like hell. I expect they wont do much
with the final moment of duet to D-flat. But, then,
this little opera is of very little import, in my
sometimes-humble opinion!
Have the fact checkers left the MET. The first season at Lincoln Center there were NINE new productions. Both Mr. Gelb and Ms. Juntwait think that this season’s eight is a tie with that season. Can’t they count?
(okay: ANTONY & CLEOPATRA, LA TRAVIATA, LA GIOCONDA, DIE FRAU OHNE SCHATTEN, ELEKTRA, LOHENGRIN, DIE ZAUBERTLöTE, PETER GRIMES, MOURNING BECOMES ELECTRA.)