Questo e quello
Friendly correspondent Kalena (not pictured) reports that (so far as she can make out) the telecast of the Mantua Rigoletto this weekend will in fact be viewable here in the US. Her email and La Cieca’s attempt to figure out time zones after the jump.
ZDF will be broadcasting & live-streaming the Raitv Rigoletto in a delayed fashion. The particulars:
Sat 4. Sep (aujourd’hui, or demain de bonne heure!) at 23:55-circa 01:00 CET for ACT I
Sun 5. Sep at 23:50-c. 01:00 CET for ACTs II & III
The above links are to the programme pages available at the ZDF site. Each page carries numerous links to the ZDF player (mediathek) as well as a bevy of info & media materials. If the latter is just too ho-hum, voilà the zdfmediathek en directe. Default for player is Flash, you may toggle to html, and the stream can be picked up by selecting the LIVE button on top menu.
…. ZDF’s modus is to annotate their programme listings with appropriate ‘audience restriction’ notices. There are none listed indicating restriction to viewership in Germany. So it is fair to expect open access to the live-stream…
Now comes the math. La Cieca’s understanding is that EDT (good old New York time) is six hours behind CET. Assuming that is correct, the ZDF telecasts should be on the following schedule:
Act 1, September 4 (today) starting at 5:55 pm.
Act 2, September 5 (tomorrow) starting at 5:50 pm.
If you calculate this out better than poor innumerate La Cieca, make a comment and we’ll figure it out somehow.
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I don’t understand: are they singing live? or did they pre-record the soundtrack and they are just lip-synching? I was under the impression they would sing live, with microphones hidden in their hair as it happened for Tosca, but at least from these excerpts it looks like they are lip-synching.
Quanto: You are a puzzle.
Is it possible that you are a
bully and a bore?
I wonder!
Just took a look at the ‘Caro nome’. Ms Novikova sings very nicely (though it would always be nice to hear a fuller lyric sound in the role). But where the hell was her sustained trill at the end? There was a little judder here and there, but that was about it. What has happened to trills, eh?
I had the imrpession that they were NOT singing live. At least not Domingos parts!
Spiderman, what gave you the impression that they were not singing live? And are you implying that Domingo’s parts might have been taped and is being played back while the other parts are being sung?
Of course, since it is not complicated enough the have the orchestra one place with the conductor and their playing being broadcast to the singers who then sing into their microphones, why not add the thrill of having to syncronise this with a playback of Domingo who can then simply mime.
I simply love these conspiracy theories…
Being precise: The parts in which Rigoletto is singing
Just look at the lips of Giovanna on “Ognor si sta” (I believe it was that), it was so out of synch she simply couldn’t produce those notes…
spidy is taking it back
the “si vendetta” was definitely live. so out of rythm out of breath and a nice cough by Domingo right before Novikova hitting her e-flat….
Domingo was certainly just producing a lot of spittle, so maybe he was in fact singing.
Mantua is beautiful, but this production is basically lots of people standing around posing in old-fashioned clothes. Apart from some of the camerawork, it might as well be from the any time in the last half century. It would be interesting to know what it does for people’s perceptions of opera.
Grigolo sings stylishly, but the voice itself is nothing special.
A reminder.
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