Posts Tagged ‘Metropolitan Opera’

Streaming Live:
Orfeo ed Euridice

Film & Television / Music & Performing Arts
February 13, 2009

The Metropolitan Opera has pioneered a bold new approach to bring opera to the masses by streaming live high definition broadcasts of operas into movie theaters around the world. The recent performance of Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice was a feast for the ears and the eyes, although at the HD screening the eyes had the greatest advantage.

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A Human Art:
Sound and Spectacle in “La Gioconda”

Music & Performing Arts
October 3, 2008

The Venetian system for denouncingyour enemies, it plays an importantpart in the plot of "La Gioconda" Opera in current American culture is passionately loved by a few and generally misunderstood, feared or even reviled by most others. Its complexities can require specialized knowledge or a willingness to set aside certain expectations to wholly appreciate the [...]

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