Un Ballo in Maschera from the Met 8.12.12

[kernelbogey]

Are ROH & ENO broadcasts available on listen again?

I don't recall. We shall be able to see on Saturday after the ROH live broadcast of Meyerbeer's Robert le Diable.

[Cavaradossi]

Are ROH & ENO broadcasts available on listen again?

Yes, also Opera North, Scottish Opera, WNO and most of the broadcasts from European houses.

[bluestateprommer]

Caught this Met Opera HD (or the edited final version) as part of the nightly streaming series during social distancing quarantine, having missed it on its initial go-round. The various skewed perspective sets by David Alden and his team instantly reminded me of the same kind of skewed stage set-up of his Santa Fe Opera production of Jenufa, so I presume that this type of staging is a standard tic with DA. Plus, somehow the presentation of Gustavo made his character something of an airhead, or alternatively oblivious to danger (or just plain oblivious), and the stage movement of Count Horn (the one guy in the glasses and slightly robotic motions) seemed overly mannered and weird at times.

However, once past such reservations, solid work musically all around, and a reminder of what we lost with the premature death of Dmitri Hvorostovsky. Fabio Luisi kept a sure hand on the proceedings, as others here noted at the time, also a reminder of how he kept musical values solid there as principal conductor at the Met Opera for those ~6 years. One hopes that down the line, if things ever get back to something like normal, that the Met will bring Luisi back.