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57 comments

• MDtenore says:

  on September 6, 2010 at 9:44 PM
  • MDtenore says:

    I used to think this old Rigoletto production was corny. I’ve reconsidered.

    on September 6, 2010 at 9:45 PM
• BETSY_ANN_BOBOLINK says:

  The Labor Day Met Player Orgy is now over. Thanks to all who participated.

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  on September 6, 2010 at 10:49 PM
  • louannd says:

    Thank you BAB for all your hard work!

    PS HD tickets are NOW on sale for non-members of the Met! Got ‘em!

    on September 7, 2010 at 12:33 AM
• Quanto Painy Fakor says:

  I’m only now making it through the recording of Act II and Domingo continues to amaze in terms of how he has managed to sing this Rigoletto. No, here’s no sense of the intensity and desperation Verdi demands from a real baritone, but Domingo has focused on every word and the musician part of his total package is ever vigilant in the very risky live performance with the difficult relays between podium, orchestra and “stage”. Unfortunately the staging, acoustics, and relay sabotaged the stretto of the vendetta duet, which was a train wreck complete with at least two audible grunts from Mehta. It will be interesting to see if that is corrected in the commercial DVD. Really strange that the audio producer left Mehta’s audible “Bravi! Bravi, bravi, bravi!” to the orchestra and their tapping their instruments as applause for what they had just recorded on the telecast. Memories of live performances of what it really should be like will endure longer than this Anderman video. I wish someone could explain the function of old-timer Pierre Cavassilas, credited as the person responsible for “diretta TV/ live TV / Direct TV” as opposed to the “Cinamatografia / cinematography” of the great Vittorio Storaro. It must be a different function than say a Brian Large camera treatment of an existing stage production. In the end, I think many of the shortcomings of the Anderman Rigoletto film may be due to Cavassilas http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0146988/

  on September 7, 2010 at 12:47 AM
  • Quanto Painy Fakor says:

    This documentary shown after the telecast explains the making of the Rigoletto film http://tinyurl.com/2bvmcs4

    on September 7, 2010 at 10:02 AM