Thursday, December 07, 2006
Idamineo, Mozart, The Met and Me!
Darling Debbie C. - a well-established member of the Metropolitan Opera Chorus and a friend that Peter and I have come to value - was kind enough to offer us tickets to last night's performance of IDAMINEO and we sat center orchestra for this most wonderful production. Peter has never been to a performance there before so it was a rather celebratory evening, a Holiday night on the town. We both dressed up, and it was fun! And the Metropolitan Opera House was decked out in all of its usual gorgeousness and glory!
Since I have been teaching at Steinhardt, i have become acutely appreciative of what it takes to produce a fully expressive human singing sound, so last night was like being in the best sort of class, learning from the best. I adored every single note that came out of every single singer, because I now know how hard it is to do what they make look so easy! The sounds were glorious, expressive and fully engaged...there was actually good acting going on and the communication was clear and lovely. I saw the direction I hope opera is going in: more natural human emotional telling of the story.... ..more of the singer showing up on the stage, the singer as a person, not just an instrument.
Since I have been teaching at Steinhardt, i have become acutely appreciative of what it takes to produce a fully expressive human singing sound, so last night was like being in the best sort of class, learning from the best. I adored every single note that came out of every single singer, because I now know how hard it is to do what they make look so easy! The sounds were glorious, expressive and fully engaged...there was actually good acting going on and the communication was clear and lovely. I saw the direction I hope opera is going in: more natural human emotional telling of the story.... ..more of the singer showing up on the stage, the singer as a person, not just an instrument.
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