Opera streaming

[cahn]

Everyone knows the Met and other opera companies are streaming opera free right now, right?

Tonight the Met is streaming Eugene Onegin, so everyone should watch it and then report back to me :)

(In two weeks the Met will be streaming their Don Carlo. Just Saying :P )

Comments

[cahn]

OMG

LOL I've actually seen that clip before as Thomas Hampson is one of my favorite singers Ever and for a while I was watching any youtube clip with him in it. Bless his heart you can see him really putting his whole heart into selling the concept but OMG THAT STAGING MY EYES THEY BURN

ngl I would still watch that for Hampson and D'Arcangelo but probably laugh a lot at totally inappropriate times

Another totally WTF staging I have sat through for the sake of Thomas Hampson is this Macbeth:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ta5ziv_Ax18
(if you want to mostly spare your eyes, and who can blame you, I have screenshots here: https://cahn.dreamwidth.org/139772.html)

[kore]

The singing is so good! But it's just like WHY, WHY WOULD YOU DO THAT, WHY WOULD ANYONE GIVE YOU MONEY TO DO THAT, WHY DID THE AUDIENCE JUST NOT THROW TOMATOES AT THE SCENERY. I mean just think of all the people that staging had to go through -- the designer, the carpenters, the painters, the choreographer, whoever -- and NOBODY said "WTF are you doing?"

....GREEN GOO, OH MY GOD.

-- okay I watched more and I think that production actually out-WTFs Polanski's terrible movie version which is impressive in a really horrible direction

[cahn]

ahahaha, right?? And the thing is... like, I'm pretty sure I have a much higher tolerance for weird regie staging than you or zdenka. There have been regie stagings that I absolutely adore (even though I understand why other people wouldn't like them), and even that Hampson-D'Arcangelo Salzburg Don Giovanni, even though it definitely has more than its fair share of WTF, I do get that they're going for a particular effect and there are a lot of things I think are fascinating about that (and like I said I'd probably watch it, too).

And then there's that Macbeth, where I have NO IDEA what the director was trying to go for. Like, if he had been going for Alien Duncan/MacDuff it would be super weird but at least it would be a unifying concept! But honestly I think the director was like "green goo sounds like it would be coooool and shock the audience! Gold Duncan? WHY NOT." *facepalm*

(I still watched it for Hampson, though :) he's So Good)

[kore]

And the thing is... like, I'm pretty sure I have a much higher tolerance for weird regie staging than you or [personal profile] zdenka

Ahaha I have no doubt! And yet....GREEN GOO! Maybe he saw too much Star Trek at a formative age?

[cahn]

IDK! But I did get two awesome Yuletide stories out of it!

Favor for Ruin
So Green and Pale