the free ticket gets people in the door. i'm more worried about the second one. at sf opera the cheapest regular seat after the $10 deal is $30, way up in the back
Thanks Robyn. I think this is very cool. Good grief with the negative crap from people. This is a very amazing thing from the mayor. I hope more mayors will follow his lead. Yea. Bring the arts to people and thereby infuse an interest. Very nice and thanks for sharing!
pro-tip: before you go to the performance familiarize yourself with it if you haven't, I recommend at least listening through the whole thing two times. this applies to all music, IMO.
if you love opera, you should check out the santa fe opera. open air and MUCH loved. people tailgate prior (and sometimes it's VERY elegant!) and dress in everything from evening gowns to jeans and sweats. it's a very egalitarian opera!
I been kicking around an opera idea where struggling artists strive to maintain love in a callous, cold and indifferent world filled with crushing poverty and disease. Good people end up dying and there is much weeping at the end.
But my opera friends all say it's been done before.
But then I tell them there is also a narcissist asshole landlord involved and his henchman actually withholds vaccine treatment for TB from a frail heroine and they say that's a new twist.
My biggest problem is getting the set and lighting designers to coordinate "Monsieur Guillotine's Economic Policy" at the climax of the opera without too much spatter to the front rows.
Written from a place of passion, the useful tips of what kinds of programs to look for in our own locations is the cherry on top. My aunt said she did not expect to enjoy opera, but she did and goes to a telecast ever season. People in the arts have been sorting out how we get paid to do our work for forever. People working more traditional employment roles have no idea about this- it is still very much patronage at a lot of levels. I hope that all these New Yorkers have a blast.
My Mother would make us listen to the Texaco Metropolitan Opera radio broadcasts. We all stopped buying their fuel when they ended their sponsership. And yes I listened in my underwear.
According to my dad's time- life books about the Old West. As towns were getting established on the frontier. The first things a town would build was a school house and an opera house. In order to entice eastern preferably wealthy women to come west and marry the men. A lot of small towns had an opera house to help prove that they were civilized Denver Abilene andkansascityhad themand alsododgecitytoo, Carson City also
Fancy dress up stuff like opera is definitely out of my wheelhouse, but I'm glad this exists. If for no other reason than it makes Twitter jackasses and elitist snobs mad.
the free ticket gets people in the door. i'm more worried about the second one. at sf opera the cheapest regular seat after the $10 deal is $30, way up in the back
Thanks Robyn. I think this is very cool. Good grief with the negative crap from people. This is a very amazing thing from the mayor. I hope more mayors will follow his lead. Yea. Bring the arts to people and thereby infuse an interest. Very nice and thanks for sharing!
pro-tip: before you go to the performance familiarize yourself with it if you haven't, I recommend at least listening through the whole thing two times. this applies to all music, IMO.
if you love opera, you should check out the santa fe opera. open air and MUCH loved. people tailgate prior (and sometimes it's VERY elegant!) and dress in everything from evening gowns to jeans and sweats. it's a very egalitarian opera!
Opera is a communist conspiracy! Repeated exposure will make you gay
I been kicking around an opera idea where struggling artists strive to maintain love in a callous, cold and indifferent world filled with crushing poverty and disease. Good people end up dying and there is much weeping at the end.
But my opera friends all say it's been done before.
But then I tell them there is also a narcissist asshole landlord involved and his henchman actually withholds vaccine treatment for TB from a frail heroine and they say that's a new twist.
My biggest problem is getting the set and lighting designers to coordinate "Monsieur Guillotine's Economic Policy" at the climax of the opera without too much spatter to the front rows.
Watch donnie try to interfere.
I just know he is going to try.
And fail.
Written from a place of passion, the useful tips of what kinds of programs to look for in our own locations is the cherry on top. My aunt said she did not expect to enjoy opera, but she did and goes to a telecast ever season. People in the arts have been sorting out how we get paid to do our work for forever. People working more traditional employment roles have no idea about this- it is still very much patronage at a lot of levels. I hope that all these New Yorkers have a blast.
So our fearless keyboard warriors fear that poor people will walk into the Metropolitan Opera House and take a shit onstage during the performance?
I bet that account-holder was in the Capitol on January 6.
I love this more than words can say.
My Mother would make us listen to the Texaco Metropolitan Opera radio broadcasts. We all stopped buying their fuel when they ended their sponsership. And yes I listened in my underwear.
I looked her up and Ms. Carlisle was a trained opera singer before her career in film.
I hope there will be a performance of "Idomeneo" and/or "La Clemenza di Tito", two of Mozart's most underrated operas. Truly.
https://archive.org/details/whats-opera-doc-1957-restored
What's Opera Doc?
According to my dad's time- life books about the Old West. As towns were getting established on the frontier. The first things a town would build was a school house and an opera house. In order to entice eastern preferably wealthy women to come west and marry the men. A lot of small towns had an opera house to help prove that they were civilized Denver Abilene andkansascityhad themand alsododgecitytoo, Carson City also
Suave. Goddamn, those were suave fuckers!
Fancy dress up stuff like opera is definitely out of my wheelhouse, but I'm glad this exists. If for no other reason than it makes Twitter jackasses and elitist snobs mad.
The elusive two-fer.