The Metropolitan Opera offers summer re-runs of its Live in HD series.
by Paul Pelkonen
Need to get out of the sunlight and into the opera house? Well the Met currently has the Chagalls curtained, but the company is advertising a series of Summer Encores of its Live in HD series.
Here's some nice footage of Anna Netrebko in Les contes d'Hoffmann:
Here's a list of what's offered. All titles link to full reviews on Superconductor.
June 20th: Le Comte Ory
"Mr. Flórez, now decked out in a nun's habit and wimple, sang a glorious duet with Ms. Damrau, letting their remarkable voices fly free. "
June 27th: Don Giovanni
"The servant is as lecherous as his master, played with a curiously moral core that is straight out of Beaumarchais. Mr. Pisaroni brought a raw vitality to the proceedings, and has the makings of a great Don himself. "
July 11th: Les contes d'Hoffmann
"Spalanzani's toyshop (birthplace of the doll Olympia) is now a production-line facility for anonymous men to buy their own personal female playthings, a kind of cybernetic prostitution that recalls the film Blade Runner."
July 18th: Lucia di Lammermoor
"This final act is a wild ride under an enormous cold moon, a trip through the psychological fun house that compares with a good production of Wozzeck in its relentless exploration of human madness. "
http://super-conductor.blogspot.com/2007/10/opera-review-lucia-at-met-blood.html
July 25th: Der Rosenkavalier
" In the opening scene, the erotic connection that exists between Octavian and the Marschallin is readily apparent. (In fact, I felt more like a voyeur than an opera-goer!)"
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| Kathleen Kim in the Met's 2009 Les contes d'Hoffmann. Photo by Ken Howard © 2009 The Metropolitan Opera. |
Here's some nice footage of Anna Netrebko in Les contes d'Hoffmann:
Here's a list of what's offered. All titles link to full reviews on Superconductor.
June 20th: Le Comte Ory
"Mr. Flórez, now decked out in a nun's habit and wimple, sang a glorious duet with Ms. Damrau, letting their remarkable voices fly free. "
June 27th: Don Giovanni
"The servant is as lecherous as his master, played with a curiously moral core that is straight out of Beaumarchais. Mr. Pisaroni brought a raw vitality to the proceedings, and has the makings of a great Don himself. "
July 11th: Les contes d'Hoffmann
"Spalanzani's toyshop (birthplace of the doll Olympia) is now a production-line facility for anonymous men to buy their own personal female playthings, a kind of cybernetic prostitution that recalls the film Blade Runner."
July 18th: Lucia di Lammermoor
"This final act is a wild ride under an enormous cold moon, a trip through the psychological fun house that compares with a good production of Wozzeck in its relentless exploration of human madness. "
http://super-conductor.blogspot.com/2007/10/opera-review-lucia-at-met-blood.html
July 25th: Der Rosenkavalier
" In the opening scene, the erotic connection that exists between Octavian and the Marschallin is readily apparent. (In fact, I felt more like a voyeur than an opera-goer!)"
