Royal Opera Tristan

[ARBurton]

Hi all
Does anyone happen to know the date of the performance which was broadcast on R3 in December?

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Hi all
Does anyone happen to know the date of the performance which was broadcast on R3 in December?

Broadcast on Mon 29th Dec, ARB - Radio Times says "from the ROH" but not that it was a Live relay, which they normally do if this is so.

[ARBurton]

Broadcast on Mon 29th Dec, ARB - Radio Times says "from the ROH" but not that it was a Live relay, which they normally do if this is so.

Yes, I don`t think it was live - was wondering if anyone knew which performance they`d recorded. I like to know these things. (Lovely and warm in this anorak...)

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Yes, I don`t think it was live - was wondering if anyone knew which performance they`d recorded. I like to know these things. (Lovely and warm in this anorak...)

Me, too - and I can talk for hours about anoraks!

It wasn't Live (the last performance of the production was 21st Dec) and I can't find any information online - least of all from the R3 website (which, instead, gives us two synopses of the plot!)

[LHC]

I think the performance I attended on 11 December was recorded as microphones were in evidence. However, I believe the Opera House and the BBC usually record 2 or 3 performances in case of any mishaps and then choose the best for broadcast.

[Flosshilde]

After Ballo last night the presenter said that it had been recorded last weekend - presumably Saturday unless the RO performs on Sunday as well now?; perhaps something similar was said at the end of the Tristan broadcast?

[LHC]

After Ballo last night the presenter said that it had been recorded last weekend - presumably Saturday unless the RO performs on Sunday as well now?; perhaps something similar was said at the end of the Tristan broadcast?

The recorded performance was on Friday 2 January. By chance I attended that performance as well, and as well as the microphones on stage and in the orchestra, we could see the radio 3 presenters in one of the boxes.

[underthecountertenor]

The recorded performance was on Friday 2 January. By chance I attended that performance as well, and as well as the microphones on stage and in the orchestra, we could see the radio 3 presenters in one of the boxes.

How was Ballo on the 2nd, LHC? I ask because, for the first time in my opera-going life, I resold my tickets for that evening via the ROH for no other reason than that I had read pretty much all the depressing reviews and decided that I could probably do better things with my time and money that evening. I couldn't understand why they had so quickly replaced what was a more than serviceable (and in some ways spectacular) production with something which pretty much everyone appeared to have agreed was dreary; Calleja is not my favourite tenor (and the reviews suggested that he was not going to change my opinion of him this time); Hvorostovsky seems to be going through the motions these days (still working to pay off his ancillary relief liabilities?); and the Amelia didn't sound terribly tempting. Normally I ignore critics and form my own view, but the weight and unanimity of the negativity on this occasion caused me to make an exception. But now I fear that you are going to tell me I made a terrible mistake...

[Conchis]

How was Ballo on the 2nd, LHC? I ask because, for the first time in my opera-going life, I resold my tickets for that evening via the ROH for no other reason than that I had read pretty much all the depressing reviews and decided that I could probably do better things with my time and money that evening. I couldn't understand why they had so quickly replaced what was a more than serviceable (and in some ways spectacular) production with something which pretty much everyone appeared to have agreed was dreary; Calleja is not my favourite tenor (and the reviews suggested that he was not going to change my opinion of him this time); Hvorostovsky seems to be going through the motions these days (still working to pay off his ancillary relief liabilities?); and the Amelia didn't sound terribly tempting. Normally I ignore critics and form my own view, but the weight and unanimity of the negativity on this occasion caused me to make an exception. But now I fear that you are going to tell me I made a terrible mistake...

Well, I was also there on the 2nd and you've pretty much described what you missed. I've never understood the fuss about Calleja and the evening did nothing to convince me I'd been wrong. Hvroststosky was, as you say, on auto-pilot, though I'd been expecting more of the Amelia after being impressed by her work in Nabucco.

The only justification for a new production, I'd have thought, would be to present the Swedish version - but, no, we were back in Boston, as per last time.

Worst of all, though was the leaden conducting of Daniel Oren:the whole thing regularly ground to a halt. Applause was, I thought, very perfunctory.

A wise move on your part, I'd say!

[Flosshilde]

I was intrigued to hear that there was a handy tomb in the ballroom waiting for Riccardo. Obviously something every royal ballroom should be equipped with!

[underthecountertenor]

Well, I was also there on the 2nd and you've pretty much described what you missed. I've never understood the fuss about Calleja and the evening did nothing to convince me I'd been wrong. Hvroststosky was, as you say, on auto-pilot, though I'd been expecting more of the Amelia after being impressed by her work in Nabucco.

The only justification for a new production, I'd have thought, would be to present the Swedish version - but, no, we were back in Boston, as per last time.

Worst of all, though was the leaden conducting of Daniel Oren:the whole thing regularly ground to a halt. Applause was, I thought, very perfunctory.

A wise move on your part, I'd say!

Thanks, Conchis! Very pleased to hear it. I remember buying Calleja's debut Decca CD on the back of rave reviews, and wondering what I was missing. Like you, nothing I've heard of him since, live or recorded, has changed my opinion.

[PrincipessaDiGelo]

Going back to Tristan, someone I got talking to at Covent Garden said that the microphones had been out for two of the performances he had been to.