We are listening
UPDATE: The Traviata chat is beginning in preparation for the 8:00 start time of tonight’s performance.
The real-time chat, as always, is at La Casa della Cieca.
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PJ — Things are ever-so-slightly more interesting in the unscheduled block from 3:00-6:00 a.m. EST when they will play full-length things, mostly sacred. I heard a “Lord Nelson” Mass, a Mahler Second and some other things, but I don’t go there that often. Still uncurated, of course. Your tumbleweed image is good; I picture them going on forever like the Coke bottle scene in “On the Beach”
Back to Traviata, I am very much liking Gheorghiu and Hampson. (So eat my shorts.) And I hold to my opinion that if people thought this was Villazon singing Alfredo, they’d be lighting novenas and saying candles.
I’d love to know which broadcasts they’ve repeated more than any other. I’d place my bets on the Sills L’Assedio. It must be on every other week.
Peter@33: I wish I could get into that Sills L’Assedio, since it is on so often. But I find it difficult to sit through the whole thing. It feels like a lot of ideas and musical themes that aren’t developed fully.
Anyway, back to Traviata…
WTF IS GOING ONE. They cant stop bravo-ing!!!!!
35# Who knows what some opera managements do to decorate things do these days? It could a continuous recorded loop ‘bravo track’. It then might explain all the conflict differences here between what people actually experienced live and what others heard from some broadcast of the very same thing.
I am suspicious of seeing a direct broadcast of an opera, then when comes curtain call, there is polite clapping, followed quickly by a blocking cut back shot to the compere(s), over-joyous in their comments about ‘what was absolute undeniable SHITE’ and camera angle changes -such – that the reactions of audience are no longer on view ….then all those ‘bravos’ suddenly appear out of nowhere on the soundtrack….comperes give their fast enthusiastic farewells ….fade to black. I get just a bit cynical.