Met Puccini's Manon Lescaut 5.3 2016

[DracoM]

Hmm.

Well, Alagna gets prizes for knowing how to work the Met faithful!

[teamsaint]

From a state of almost complete ignorance , I rather enjoyed the cinema screening.
I'd say that knowing how to work the local audience was a handy attribute for a stand in.

( In what way was he particularly working the Met faithful ?)

[gradus]

Alagna apparently learnt the role in 12 days, remarkable by any standard and he was very effective.
I too saw it in the cinema and enjoyed it hugely though I thought Richard Eyre's 1941 setting pretty bizarre and ill at ease with the story. Some wonderful music sensitively interpreted played and sung, the third act is one of my Puccini favourites especially in the Chailly/Carreras/Te Kanawa recording.
I'm eagerly anticipating Mdm Butterfly on 2 April with the same two leads.

[Flosshilde]

Could the title of the thread be amended? It's a wee bit confusing as it was Puccini's Manon Lescaut, not Massenet's Manon, that was broadcast (presumably Puccini wanted to make sure that his version of the story wouldn't be mistaken for Massenet's on the theatre bills).

[underthecountertenor]

On Sunday morning, France Musique (in an edition of their series Musicus Politicus on the subject of space exploration) played the Intermezzo from Manon Lescaut followed by the theme from Star Wars. I'd never consciously made the connection before.

[notinajumalainukhaju]

Why can't I listen to it again on the BBC Live from the Met website? Every time I go there it says: 'This content does not seem to be working. Please try again later.' I have - several times, even thought it is still available for more than 20 days as I write. Help!

[underthecountertenor]

Why can't I listen to it again on the BBC Live from the Met website? Every time I go there it says: 'This content does not seem to be working. Please try again later.' I have - several times, even thought it is still available for more than 20 days as I write. Help!

It seems to be working at the moment, for me at least.

[teamsaint]

I'd still be interested in how Alagna was working the Met faithful.

( the listen again is working fine for me.)

[seanbala]

Why can't I listen to it again on the BBC Live from the Met website? Every time I go there it says: 'This content does not seem to be working. Please try again later.' I have - several times, even thought it is still available for more than 20 days as I write. Help!

I have been having the same trouble since "Turandot" - I can listen to all the other operas but none of the ones that are "Live from the Met" - it is incredibly frustrating and no one seems to have any solution. I won't work either on my home computer or my work computer and it won't work in any browser. I am assuming that they have been locked to only play in certain countries (I am currently living in Southeast Asia). Has anyone else had the same problem?

[Flosshilde]

I would think that your location is the answer. The Met broadcasts are made available in Europe through an agreement with the European Broadcasting (Union ?) (the people that bring us the Eurovision Song Contest), so I expect that the agreement doesn't extend to making it available to non-European countries. It's only relatively recently that the BBC broadcasts were made available on 'listen again'.

[french frank]

I would think that your location is the answer.

Quoting Wikipedia: "The series is currently broadcast on over 300 stations in the United States, and stations in 40 countries on 5 continents. These countries include Canada, Mexico, 27 European countries, Australia, New Zealand, Argentina, Brazil, Ecuador, Mexico, Peru, Uruguay, China, and Japan."

[BBMmk2]

I love opera, really, it's just the productions, in variably put me off the idea of either going to the cinema or the Opera House.

[Flosshilde]

Quoting Wikipedia: "The series is currently broadcast on over 300 stations in the United States, and stations in 40 countries on 5 continents. These countries include Canada, Mexico, 27 European countries, Australia, New Zealand, Argentina, Brazil, Ecuador, Mexico, Peru, Uruguay, China, and Japan."

No doubt, but as I said the broadcasts in the UK are made possible through an agreement with the EBU. It's perfectly possible for that agreement to stipulate that people outside the EBU area can't listen to internet broadcasts by stations within the area. We know that BBC broadcasts are (or were) blocked even in some European countries.

Seanbala says they are "currently living in Southeast Asia"; is that area covered in your list of countries the Met broadcasts are available in?

[gradus]

Excellent Met Mdm Butterfly yesterday, really good picture and sound quality at the cinema.

[seanbala]

No doubt, but as I said the broadcasts in the UK are made possible through an agreement with the EBU. It's perfectly possible for that agreement to stipulate that people outside the EBU area can't listen to internet broadcasts by stations within the area. We know that BBC broadcasts are (or were) blocked even in some European countries.

Seanbala says they are "currently living in Southeast Asia"; is that area covered in your list of countries the Met broadcasts are available in?

Thank you so much for the responses!! This has been driving me CRAZY for months. What I am confused about is that I have been in Southeast Asia for about two years and they only recently stopped working. I was able to listen to "Tannhauser" just fine. And I started listening to "Turandot" in January but it just cut out and stopped working. I can listen to the Thursday Opera Matinee and I can listen to all of the other operas not from the Met. I assume that it is location - I assume that they recently tightened things up digitally.

Perhaps I can try to time myself to the live stream on BBC or from the Met website (just really awful timings for me). Does anyone have any other suggestions?