The Metropolitan Opera is not coming back.
The Metropolitan Opera is not coming back.
From Wednesday, 7:30pm to 6:30 pm Thursday, EST, the Metropolitan Opera’s free streaming selection will be their exquisite 2016 production of Kaaija Saariaho’s beautiful opera, L’Amour de Loin. This is some seriously magical, gorgeous stuff, the kind of thing that still makes opera worthwhile in the age of an overwhelming supply of video media (you …
Opera Philadelphia will be streaming five productions, starting Friday, May 1, and running through May 29, on their YouTube page and at operaphila.org. Like other streaming opera presenters, there’s a schedule for when each of the performances will be available: Denis & Katya (Philip Venables) , premiering May 1, 8pm, available through May 8, 7pm …
I do not begrudge the big guys, they do a lot of good work. But right now, they are too big—they won’t fail, but they are paralyzed. I know, I know, this is late capitalist America, where material success is rewarded and quality is effervescent…
At the American Opera Project website, [www.aopopera.org], you can view four recent operas:
What’s the opposite of collateral damage? One of the weird products of halls shutting down and people shutting themselves in is that there are performance experiences (albeit streaming) that would otherwise be totally unavailable.
