An evening at the Opera
The fascinating limelight of the MET
Saturday, 7 May 2011
, 19.00
The fascinating limelight of the MET
End of
season
At last! At the end of one season of live
broadcasts from the New York Metropolitan Opera House, the Vienna State Opera and
the Bavarian State Opera in Munich – the twenty-third season at An Evening at the Opera! – this Saturday you
will learn all the details that made the broadcast of Armida from March 5th an event, completely erasing the
distance between you and all things good, important and glamour in the universe of opera shows. The details would remain a mystery but for the dialogue with those
very people who daily establish the coordinates of success; the distance would remain an
insuperable barrier but for the direct contact with this most dynamic and
high-level institution called simply the MET.
5 exclusive
interviews, 4 shows attended, 3 celebrity declarations, 2 days at the
Metropolitan Opera Radio and one live broadcast
Consequently, you will have the opportunity to
listen to the complete exclusive interviews with tenor Lawrence Brownlee and conductor Riccardo Frizza on March 5th (the day of the live
broadcast) and also the interviews at the New York Radio Metropolitan Opera with
tenor Piotr Beczala (whom we watched playing Romeo in Romeo and Juliet, to Margaret Juntwait (the producer of all
the MET shows broadcast by the European Broadcasting Union and implicitly by
us) and to Brian Zegger (executive director of the Lindemann Young
Artists Development Program, sponsored by the MET and by the Juilliard School (Vlad
Iftinca, our compatriot, also plays an important part in the implementation of
this program). You will also listen to comments and greetings from mezzo soprano
Susan Graham and tenor Joseph Calleja.
For I wanted my New York experience to mean
more to you than a free entrance to the backstage of the MET; I sought to offer
you a glimpse into the unique complexity of this institution, and also to convey
to you that fascination the MET exerts over all of its visitors…
So join us for this week’s Evening at the Opera on Saturday, May 7th, at 19:00.
