Opera streaming
Mar. 22nd, 2020 03:05 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cahnEveryone 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 )
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 )
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Date: 2020-03-22 11:32 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2020-03-23 01:16 am (UTC)Also, Dima and Renée are simply radiant.
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Date: 2020-03-23 02:14 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2020-03-23 02:55 am (UTC)/has strong feelings about staircases, apparently
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Date: 2020-03-23 02:58 am (UTC)Why is Fiesco dressed like a Jedi? Why does Paolo wear the same orange thing for 25 years (and also does't age at all)? Why is everyone into sash belts? Why are all the costumes oversized and ill-fitting? Oh, and the random curtain covering half the stage at various points. And the extremely ominous crystal chalice. Sitting ominously on a table.
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Date: 2020-03-23 03:21 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2020-03-23 04:01 am (UTC)I'll ask you about the direction things when I've watched a little more (I'm not very far in at all yet)
I am in love with everything about the Onegin, I hope you get a chance to watch some of it :D
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Date: 2020-03-23 04:02 am (UTC)and yet the Boccanegra isn't even that bad compared to the Don Carlo! Why is Rodrigo wearing a pirate costume and why does he only have one outfit (doesn't change to something nicer in the auto-da-fe). Why!
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Date: 2020-03-23 04:03 am (UTC)But this Eugene Onegin is really just amazing, the singers and the staging are all just so moving and gorgeous -- I found it on youtube many years ago (of course it is no longer there) and promptly bought it on DVD, I loved it that much. I hope you get a chance to watch at least some of it!
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Date: 2020-03-23 04:07 am (UTC)Group-watching opera sounds like SO much fun. I have been able to coordinate watching with
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Date: 2020-03-23 04:12 am (UTC)They are being really generous but at the same time I wish they would have an "encore performance" the day after maybe a little earlier, in the afternoon. OTOH I know I'm being completely greedy, and also I have a lot of those Magic Flute UTU videos you blogged about ON REPEAT throughout the day. Fortunately my husband likes the opera. He is looking a little skeptical about the Wagner Marathon starting at the Met next week tho.
Anyway, RENEE FLEMING. I know it makes me a basic opera fan or whatever but I don't care, I just adore her. I can feel my blood pressure drop about 10 points listening to her Casta Diva: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rg4L5tcxFcA (Altho Jesus I forgot how nasty opera fans are on UTU. And are they all Callas stans? I love her too, but really!)
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Date: 2020-03-23 04:22 am (UTC)I might not remember all of them--I've been really tired. But I'll tell you if I remember.
I'll see if I have the time and brain to watch Onegin tomorrow-technically-today. I don't know Russian opera in general nearly as well as I'd like.
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Date: 2020-03-23 04:31 am (UTC)I think for Worst Fucking Taped Production I have ever seen it has to be that Don Giovanni where the Don is wearing a Burger King crown and they have Leporello with a boombox for the onstage orchestra playing the opera arias. I couldn't even focus on the singing, I was just like WHY. WHY YOU DO THIS.
Aha it was this one! (Found a description: "The setting is eerily surrealistic and includes sudden appearances of ropes, a bus-stop and a car. Don Giovanni is mortally wounded in the fight with the commendatore and the opera takes place during the last three hours of his life as he is slowly dying. Or perhaps it is just drug-induced hallucinations of him and Leporello, both intravenous drug users, in the wood?") Salzburg 2008.
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Date: 2020-03-23 04:31 am (UTC)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oF7ocNl6nXo
....'competently sung yet bizarrely staged Don Giovannis' seems to be an actual category on UTU, at least it's taking my mind off the plague
https://youtu.be/Hnd5ULYG2no?t=8870
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Date: 2020-03-23 04:46 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2020-03-23 05:08 am (UTC)I'm old school so I blame Joseph Papp. Well, my parents lived in NYC about when he started his re-imaginings of Shakespeare (my dad was involved in the production of Charles Gordone's No Place to Be Somebody) so they blamed Joseph Papp.
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Date: 2020-03-23 05:09 am (UTC)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)
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Date: 2020-03-23 05:10 am (UTC)