The Opera Tattler
Reviews of Performances and their Audiences
Category: Live in HD Met Simulcasts
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The Met's simulcast of Salomé this Saturday will not show Karita Mattila nude in the Dance of the Seven Veils. LA Times Article | Met Live in HD
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Next season the Met presents 11 simulcasts, including: Opening Night Gala (North America Only)September 22, 2008 SalomeOctober 11, 2008 Doctor AtomicNovember 8, 2008 Le Damnation de FaustNovember 22, 2008 ThaisDecember 20, 2008 La RondineJanuary 10, 2009 Orfeo ed EuridiceJanuary 24, 2009 Lucia di LammermoorFebruary 7, 2009 Madama ButterflyMarch 7, 2009 La SonnambulaMarch 21, 2009 La…
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* Notes * The Dieter Dorn/Jürgen Rose production of Tristan und Isolde was shown as a simulcast yesterday. I tried my best not to worry too much about the set and staging, as I did not find the Dorn/Rose Le Nozze or Così at Bayerische Staatsoper particularly interesting, though their Don Carlo was not bad.…
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* Notes * Despite my lack of enthusiasm for Benjamin Britten's music, I did attend today's simulcast of Peter Grimes. Some of Britten's rhythms in this opera were of interest, particularly the sea shanty at the end of Act I. Unlike the protagonists of Billy Budd or The Turn of the Screw, the character of…
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I am going to skip out on tomorrow's Live in HD Met Simulcast of Manon Lescaut, as there is quite enough of Puccini in my future. It is tempting, as the cast looks good. I heard Mattila sing the title role several times in 2006, and that production was one of the best that season.…
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* Notes * The Met's simulcast of Macbeth aired today. The production, by Adrian Noble, is new to the Met and opened October 22, 2007. Set after World War II, Mark Thompson's set and costumes are dark, lots of black, grey, olive, khaki. There were many leather jackets and machine guns, Banquo, for example, seemed…
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* Notes * The Met's simulcast of Hansel and Gretel aired today. The production, by Richard Jones, is new to the Met and opened on Christmas Eve. Created for Welsh National Opera and Lyric Opera of Chicago, the staging is rather dark. Act I is nearly all grey, Act II takes place in an oppressive…
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The Met’s first simulcast of the season, Roméo et Juliette, showed on 477 screens in the United States, and 100 screens abroad, selling around 97,000 tickets. The season is as follows: Roméo et JulietteDecember 15, 2007 (10:00 am – 1:30 pm PST) Hansel and GretelJanuary 1, 2008 (10:00 am – 12:35 pm PST) MacbethJanuary 12,…
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Simulcasts seem to be all the rage now. San Francisco Opera had one of Madama Butterfly last summer, and one of Rigoletto in October. The Met debuted their simulcast program with an English version of Die Zauberflöte in about 150 movie theatres around the world on December 30, 2006. I Puritani will be simulcast this…
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