Comments on: Petah Grimes

By: Simulcast this

Simulcast this — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 02:02:42 +0000

Of course it’s being taped, don’t be ridiculous. (And I’m sure there’s a delay, just in case the soprano needs to go and puke again in the middle of the second act like it happened last week.)

In German we have a word for this. Oh, wait, no, it’s English: bite me.

By: liza

liza — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 03:38:09 +0000

It’s not being “taped” for anything. It’s a “simulcast.” Learn American, the language spoken by our Lord.

By: Gesamtkunstwerk

Gesamtkunstwerk — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 03:20:40 +0000

This Tuesday I am seeing the Tristan performance that is being taped for the simulcast. Well, Tuesday is when I’m arriving. I’ll be done with it sometime early on Wednesday.

Peter Grimes hopefully next week.

By: liza

liza — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 19:27:16 +0000

Thanks for the pointers! Fortunately (?) my boyfriend is also an opera nut, so this will not be my last live or HD performance.

By: Laurence Glavin

Laurence Glavin — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 18:14:31 +0000

Congratulations on going to see an opera that is not necessarily on the “approved” list. Many people have closed their minds about 20th Century opera, not realizing there are many masterpieces among them, “Peter Grimes” included. A little over a year ago, ny girl friend went to a Met performance and brought back a copy of the booklet handed out to patrons before the opera started; the booklet included an article about a Yale University drama professor who takes his students to The Met once a year to see one of the operas in the repertoire that have strong story lines and require singing actors (that year, the choice was Beethoven’s “Fidelio”). “Peter Grimes” also fills the bill it seems to me. Now I will be at the Randolph Cinema for “Tristan” from beginning to end because I’m an opera nut. Remember the invitation from Natalie Dessay to attend a LIVE operatic perrformance eithr in NYC, or your own local opera company? The Boston Lyric Opra is offering the very easy-to-take “L’Elisir d’Amore” right now and Opera Boston is doing a Verdi barnburner “Ernani” in the spring (if spring ever comes). So you have two opportunities to experience live staged opera (the Boston Symphony’s traversal of Berlioz’ “Les Troyens might be too much for you right now.)