My View Elizabeth – Julie Taymor’s adapted Magic Flute for families (running at 1 hour 40 minutes) intrigued me, and clearly others as I discovered when we tried to buy tickets. For the remaining shows the only seats we could find were individual and on different levels, but we decided to go for it. I couldn’t… [Read More]
Choral Excellence, Free Ricola and Eric Owens as the Devil: Mefistofele at Carnegie Hall
As my lovely fiancée had an engagement doing good deeds, I asked my friend, Bryce, to Guest Commentate for the evening. Shawn – First off, Carnegie Hall has huge dispensers with free Ricola at every lobby entrance to the theatre. Met take note! Would help the endless cacophony of coughing and hacking that plagues every… [Read More]
Martina Arroyo’s Prelude to Performance 2013
Elizabeth – I must confess I’m still recovering from Met overload and wasn’t too excited to be attending an opera. Fortunately the first opera of Martina Arroyo’s 2013 Prelude to Performance program was Elixir of Love. This was a piece I saw, and loved, at the Met last season and was excited to see Prelude’s take… [Read More]
Leitmotifs: A Fun Game to Play with Your Fingers and Your Ears
This is no doubt at least in part due to our newly acquired Wagner Addiction and Uber Nerd-dom, but we found Metoperafamily.org’s Ring Cycle personal Leitmotif generator really fun and diverting. Answer a series of questions and you will hear an audio clip of the Ring Cycle Leitmotif that best suits you and a short… [Read More]
Money for Nothung: Siegfried at the Metropolitan Opera
We attended the Met season premiere of Siegfried this weekend. Perhaps Wagner has a unifying effect on us. Elizabeth – The Met’s season premiere of Siegfried appeared to go off without a hitch on The Machine’s part. This installation of The Ring had a good deal of levity and some physical humor that I greatly enjoyed. … [Read More]
Wagner and The Machine Infernal: Das Rheingold at the Metropolitan Opera
We saw the season premiere of Das Rheingold at the Met this weekend. I had never seen it and neither of us had seen the Met’s Robert Lepage production. While there was much fine singing the series of onstage technical snafus made for an interesting matinee. Elizabeth – This was the first time attending any… [Read More]
