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Manon Lescaut
Feb. 17th, 2008 02:20 amToday was the first part of my Christmas present. We have tickets for five performances from the Met screened in HD live via satellite at a local cinema. Today was Puccini's Manon Lescaut. I thought I didn't like Puccini. I was wrong. The third act in particular was utterly and spectacularly brilliant. When opera is this good it's the ultimate. It really is.
The show was fun. They fill up the Met's very long intervals with backstage interviews with the singers, the conductor and the tech director leaving a 15 minute break in the cinema. It was very well done. The sound and picture quality was really excellent and it was on the biggest screen at the Scotiabank theatre so it was about as big as cinema screens get. It's not quite the same as being in the theatre but it's surprisingly close. Five performances cost less than an OK single performance ticket for the COC so it's a pretty good deal.
The rest of the season is Peter Grimes, La Boheme, La Fille du Regiment and Tristan und Isolde. Should be fun.
The show was fun. They fill up the Met's very long intervals with backstage interviews with the singers, the conductor and the tech director leaving a 15 minute break in the cinema. It was very well done. The sound and picture quality was really excellent and it was on the biggest screen at the Scotiabank theatre so it was about as big as cinema screens get. It's not quite the same as being in the theatre but it's surprisingly close. Five performances cost less than an OK single performance ticket for the COC so it's a pretty good deal.
The rest of the season is Peter Grimes, La Boheme, La Fille du Regiment and Tristan und Isolde. Should be fun.
