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La Cieca notices that The Met’s website metopera.org has relaunched with an abundance of new content, focusing at the moment on the eagerly-awaited opening night whoop-de-do, but also pointing to the first week’s revivals of Gioconda and Idomeneo.And that’s just the tippity-tip of the iceberg, because deeper in the site there’s a magazine’s worth of background material, everything from a photo gallery of the Met’s annual “facelift” (dare we hope that the peeling gold leaf will at long last be patched?) to a campy advice column from “Figaro” touching on such life-and-death matters as the proper use of the lorgnette and what the hell “ventitre ore” is supposed to mean. Multimedia content includes audio interviews with Anthony Minghellaand Cristina Gallardo-Domâs, plus a video interview (video! On the Met’s website! Can you stand it? Is this the 21st century or what?), well, as La Cieca was saying, a video interview with Jack O’Brien , director of this season’s new Trittico. Can a Met Wiki be too far in the future?
Parterre Box concludes the thrilling first year of Talk of the Town by inviting your lightning rod opinions on several more categories of operatic argumentation.
Parterre Box concludes the thrilling first year of Talk of the Town by inviting your lightning rod opinions on several more categories of operatic argumentation.