Karita Mattila in the HD telecast of Salome starts here in New York on Channel 13 in ten minutes. DVRs set?

By on January 18, 2009 at 11:51 AM
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Our Own JJ (right) reviews the Met’s revivals of Don Giovanni and Salome in Gay City News.

By on October 16, 2008 at 7:24 PM
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La Cieca has managed to obtain a few fragments of the camera rehearsal for Saturday afternoon’s Salome HD telecast. Note the cutting-edge video techniques employed to distract the (presumably) pre-adolescent audience from Karita’s Kooter of Kontroversy. [kml_flashembed movie=”http://www.youtube.com/v/UdWjLz5NY-E” width=”425″ height=”350″ wmode=”transparent” /]

By on October 09, 2008 at 7:21 PM
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La Cieca thinks that President Bush or anyway Senator McCain should hire Peter Gelb as, at the very least, director of communications.  A brutally honest yet constructive reaction to the current economic debacle can be found in an internal email from the Met’s chief to his staff.  FInnish minge glimpses are not the only area in…

By on October 09, 2008 at 11:26 AM
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Although the staging of the Met’s Saturday afternoon’s production of Salome will remain unchanged (i.e., Karita Mattila intends to jam out with her clam out) the HD cameras will demurely divert their lenses at the climactic moment of the Dance of the Seven Veils.  According to Culture Monster, instead of the Full Mattila, the video…

By on October 09, 2008 at 8:37 AM
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I was there in the house and it was a good night.  I still think that Mattila and the production were fresher in 2004 with a wider range of colors and dynamics.  However, she didn’t sound frayed or at the end of her rope.  Some of the louder high notes can get a blanched quality…

By on September 24, 2008 at 10:48 AM
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