Tag Archives: Metropolitan Opera
La Boheme in HD – April 5, 2008
Written by Neil Kurtzman | 7th April 2008How many times can one watch La Boheme without being bored? Apparently it is impossible to be bored by any halfway competent performance of Puccini’s masterpiece. Saturday’s HD performance of Zeffirelli’s venerable staging from the Met was better than the minimum level necessary to ward off ennui. It’s been performed so many times at the…
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More on Sirius and the Met
Written by Neil Kurtzman | 12th December 2007The broadcasts of both old and new operas from the Met via the internet are still crippled. If your computer is connected to good speakers and you are stretched out on your couch contentedly napping as the opera drifts in and out of your dreams make sure you don’t nod off at the wrong time. …
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