So I saw the Met’s Tristan und Isolde in HD on Saturday, and was relieved to see there were no casualties after the run of bad luck that’s plagued the production. Robert Dean Smith had stepped in as Tristan #4 after the first three had all been incapacitated or replaced. At the first intermission, Deborah Voigt joked a bit […]
I just hope nobody collapses or falls into the prompter’s box during tomorrow’s matinee of the Met’s Tristan und Isolde. I also hope that the run of bad luck that the production’s been having won’t make the live movie broadcast feed conk out in mid-performance while I’m watching from here in Philly. It’s enough to […]
I saw my very first Metropolitan Opera HD broadcast this weekend! And my first Peter Grimes! And…well, not my first blogger meetup, but great fun all the same. Initially, I was skeptical about the whole idea of live opera on video broadcast — I was afraid it would be too much like watching opera on […]
Googling the piece of music that’s stuck in your head will not unstick it. If anything, giving in to the impulse to Google for it will make the earworm twenty times worse. Damn you, Léo Delibes, you and your ubiquitous duet.* Also, please get out of my head now. OK? [clutches skull and whimpers] * […]
There are still a boatload of projects waiting to be done, but I’ve finished my final website project for my web design class: a guide to movies about opera. I had a lot of fun working on it, and I think I’ll most likely keep it going after this quarter is over. If you’re interested, […]
Detailed information about this year’s Met movie broadcast season is finally up. There are two venues in Philly, including one I can readily get to in University City. Whoopee! Oh, and Rigoletto at the Academy of Music was great — they did an especially good job casting the three principals (Chen Reiss wowed us all […]
So I was flipping through The Encyclopedia of Fantasy in preparation for teaching an upcoming instruction session (for a class with fantasy fiction on the syllabus), and came across an entry on "Opera." A really long entry, consisting of a 20-page-long list of operas "based on myths, legends, folktales and so on or that contain […]
I don’t suppose anyone knows where the Met’s movie-theater live broadcasts are going to be screened next season? I’d like it if they were coming to a theater near me, but so far, the screening locations seem to be a closely guarded secret. Or maybe they’re still signing movie theaters up. The lineup looks interesting, […]
I’d never heard of the International Opera Theater until today, when one of my coworkers told me about them. But apparently they adapt Shakespeare’s plays into chamber operas, and, what’s more, their version of The Winter’s Tale is going to be performed here in Philly on June 22nd and 24th. I am intrigued, not least […]
I’m posting this from the iSchool’s main computing lab, in the interval between finishing a statistics midterm and whisking off for a night out. (I still don’t have access to teh internets at home. I miss you, internets.) This is just to say that I really enjoyed Falstaff, and if anyone reading this is still […]