Butterfly from ROH 2.7.11

[Flosshilde]

But apart from that did you enjoy the opera?







Opera? What opera?

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

BTW I'm getting a lot of dropouts on digital. Anyone else?

I was listening on FM on my car radio and I became almost travel-sick with the dropouts. Not a bad performance, but I'm extremely glad not to have heard the obviously even more sickening interviews.

WHY DO THEY DO IT?

[kernelbogey]

But apart from that did you enjoy the opera?

No I didn't.

So, Radio 3 execs, please take note that the presentation by Suzy Klein and her co-presenter with the boring monotone voice, the absurd soundbites from singers, conductor and directors who had nothing useful to say to a radio audiences spoiled this broadcast for me. And the dropouts were the coup de grace.

FF - what do we do? Hara kiri begins to look an attractive option on a Saturday night....

[kernelbogey]

Hara kiri begins to look an attractive option on a Saturday night....

Just kidding, of course, in a post-modern manner.

[Frances_iom]

No I didn't.

So, Radio 3 execs, please take note that the presentation by Suzy Klein and her co-presenter with the boring monotone voice, the absurd soundbites from singers, conductor and directors who had nothing useful to say to a radio audiences spoiled this broadcast for me. ....

I suspect the on the hoof interview with those involved in an opera is generally bound either to descend into the puke inducing American banality or a presenter who, without personal knowledge of performing in the opera or a detailed background study of say the composer, can only fall back on generalities and irrelevant 'factoids' when those interviewed don't give the expected response. I have only heard one really successful backstage interview and that was done by a highly experienced and articulate performer who knew the incisive questions to ask in order to illustatre his interviewee's interpretation of the role. SK (or her producers/RAs) had obviously done some preparation in gathering those archival recordings but the effort would have been much better spent if they had returned to the old and well established interval talk format - leave the 'how was it for you' style to the tabloids.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

I begin to wonder. Suzy Klein is musically very knowledgeable . She can interview intelligently. But now this.
The charateristic interviews that many of us find so loathsome has spread. Clearly it is not the interviewers themselves who are to blame. They must be put up to it by those higher up the food-chain. And before we blame Roger Wright, he's probably under pressure to go along with this policy by those above him in the BBC. After all, it affects TV broadcasts as well, and RW's only responsible for Radio 3

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Dropouts

I am glad to hear that other listeners were having dropouts as I was worried it was my FM tuner.I did not here the apology at the end of act one.
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[kernelbogey]

I am glad to hear that other listeners were having dropouts as I was worried it was my FM tuner.I did not here the apology at the end of act one.
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For the first time in my life I made a formal complaint about this, requesting a reply. It was awful. (I assume it was the link between ROH and the BBC which was at fault.)