The Met's HD Live program

[Fungo Squiggly]

Here you were thinking this was about baseball. I will force culture and art upon you degenerate cretins if it is the last things I do!

It is a really cool program, started with their 2006-07 season, that allows people to view a live Hi-Def feed from the Metropolitan Opera at many local cinemas. They are airing 11 live performances this season, 8 of which have been completed, including Salome by Richard Strauss, La Damnation de Faust by Hector Berlioz, and La Rondine by Giacomo Puccini.

I know most of you won't appreciate it, but I figured some of you (okay....one or two at most) might be interested. :p

Mrs. Katt and I attended Saturday afternoon's showing (at the Lennox) of Lucia Di Lammermoor by Gaetano Donizetti (who also wrote L'elisir d'amore, shamelessly plugged here ) and it was fantastic. The intermissions are filled with interviews with the performers, as well as a live feed of backstage during the set changes, which is very interesting to watch. (During the first intermission, the first act set is disassembled and hauled straight out the back of the theatre into trucks and then trucked to New Jersey for storage.)

The lights for Lucia were designed by Central Ohio resident TJ Gerckens, who serves as the managing director of CATCO.

Up coming live viewings included Puccini's Madama Butterfly on March 7 and Rossini's La Cenerentole on May 9.

More information here.....

2008-2009 Live in HD!

I know opera gets a bad rap, but it really is a beautiful art form. Take your spouse and win some brownie points or soemthing. Give it a fighting chance, huh? The Met is as good as it gets, so try it out!

EDIT - It's sung in the original language, but subtitles are on the screen.

 

[jimotis4heisman]

Here you were thinking this was about baseball. I will force culture and art upon you degenerate cretins if it is the last things I do!

It is a really cool program, started with their 2006-07 season, that allows people to view a live Hi-Def feed from the Metropolitan Opera at many local cinemas. They are airing 11 live performances this season, 8 of which have been completed, including Salome by Richard Strauss, La Damnation de Faust by Hector Berlioz, and La Rondine by Giacomo Puccini.

I know most of you won't appreciate it, but I figured some of you (okay....one or two at most) might be interested. :p

Mrs. Katt and I attended Saturday afternoon's showing (at the Lennox) of Lucia Di Lammermoor by Gaetano Donizetti (who also wrote L'elisir d'amore, shamelessly plugged here ) and it was fantastic. The intermissions are filled with interviews with the performers, as well as a live feed of backstage during the set changes, which is very interesting to watch. (During the first intermission, the first act set is disassembled and hauled straight out the back of the theatre into trucks and then trucked to New Jersey for storage.)

The lights for Lucia were designed by Central Ohio resident TJ Gerckens, who serves as the managing director of CATCO.

Up coming live viewings included Puccini's Madama Butterfly on March 7 and Rossini's La Cenerentole on May 9.

More information here.....

2008-2009 Live in HD!

I know opera gets a bad rap, but it really is a beautiful art form. Take your spouse and win some brownie points or soemthing. Give it a fighting chance, huh? The Met is as good as it gets, so try it out!

EDIT - It's sung in the original language, but subtitles are on the screen.

the only singing ill see in columbus is mr leo welsh... LEO!

 

[MolGenBuckeye]

Mrs. Katt and I attended Saturday afternoon's showing (at the Lennox) of Lucia Di Lammermoor by Gaetano Donizetti

Eh, that one kind of drives me crazy.

 

[Fungo Squiggly]

Eh, that one kind of drives me crazy.

Lucia as performed by smilies:





:crazy:

:pirate1:

:dead:

 

[BuckNutty]

I hear Gaetano Donizetti is a real coc*hole.

 

[MolGenBuckeye]

Lucia as performed by smilies:





:crazy:

:pirate1:

:dead:

I think the subtitles in the theater should be replaced by those.

(BTW, throw in a :skull:, and I think you may have accidentally transcribed Hamlet as well.)

 

[BB73]

Fans of the Yankees will feel left out; but once they hear it, they won't.

 

[Fungo Squiggly]

I think the subtitles in the theater should be replaced by those.

(BTW, throw in a :skull:, and I think you may have accidentally transcribed Hamlet as well.)

Shakespeare? Are you kidding? That shit is lame. :p

I wanted to include ":groove3:" but they weren't exactly clear on whether it got to that point before ":crazy:" and ":pirate1:".

 

[jimotis4heisman]

i think is might end up being an epic. you know thump ice storm quality...

 

[MolGenBuckeye]

While we're at it, I'll save everyone 15 hours:

:tic:









:2004:



:susp:

:pirate1:

:groove3:()

:):moo:

:bicker:





:):moo::):moo::):moo::):moo::):moo::):moo::):moo:


:sleep2:





:teeth:

:box:

:groove3:



:moo::bicker::moo:



:dead:

 

[DaytonBuck]

This thread will be a hit with the drunk thread crowd

 

[Fungo Squiggly]

While we're at it, I'll save everyone 15 hours:

:tic:









:2004:



:susp:

:pirate1:

:groove3:()

:):moo:

:bicker:





:):moo::):moo::):moo::):moo::):moo::):moo::):moo:


:sleep2:





:teeth:

:box:

:groove3:



:moo::bicker::moo:



:dead:

No **spoiler** warning? Bastard.

I was going to ring in the new year by watching that.

 

[FCollinsBuckeye]

While we're at it, I'll save everyone 15 hours:

:tic:









:2004:



:susp:

:pirate1:

:groove3:()

:):moo:

:bicker:





:):moo::):moo::):moo::):moo::):moo::):moo::):moo:


:sleep2:





:teeth:

:box:

:groove3:



:moo::bicker::moo:



:dead:

I loved it. It was better than Cats. I'll see it again and again.

 

[MolGenBuckeye]

No **spoiler** warning? Bastard. :[censored]ed:

I was going to ring in the new year by watching that.

Dang, my bad. I was preoccupied with figuring out if it belonged here or in the Oden thread.

 

[MaxBuck]

BK, what did tix cost?