Kaufmann in Parsifal, live from the Met 2.3.13

[Karafan]

I wondered if anyone is planning to frog it to their local subscribing cinema this coming Saturday to catch Jonas Kaufmann (swoon), René Pape et al in François Girard's new production of Parsifal, streamed live from the Met?

https://www.metoperafamily.org/metopera/liveinhd/LiveinHD.aspx

Taking a picnic for the interval, too?

K.

[gurnemanz]

Swindon here we come. Booked last night. It's our first foray into "live" cinema opera and the intermission picnic suggestion is a good one.

[Karafan]

Good for you Gurney - and if you, of all people, hadn't been going I would have been astounded! Let us know your thoughts on Sunday when you've recovered!

[DublinJimbo]

Yes, booked last week for one of Dublin's six screening venues, and really looking forward to it. My last live experience was of the final night of a much-performed (and fairly traditional) production in Vienna ten years ago. This new approach will be very different (and, of course, Jonas Kaufmann wasn't involved ten years ago).

Does anyone know at what time the performance ends?

[ostuni]

I've read some very enthusiastic reviews: Kaufmann, Pape and Mattei are predictably popular, and Gatti's conducting is well received. Unfortunately, I'm working on Sat, otherwise might well have been at Swindon too. But the Picturehouse chain are doing encore showings, so I've booked for the Phoenix Picturehouse in Oxford for Tue 5th. It starts at midday, so the first interval is scheduled for around 2pm. I'm not sure about an early March picnic... But Google streetview shows the Jericho Café just over the road. On the offchance that there's an Oxford reader on the thread - any thoughts?

[bluestateprommer]

Does anyone know at what time the performance ends?

The Met's page gives an approximate running time of 5 hours, 40 minutes, starting at around 12 noon in NYC, so ending ~5:40 PM or so. This would be 11:40 PM GMT. Subject to musical tempo whimsy, of course. If anyone wants to read NYT stuff on the new Met production:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/10/arts/music/a-look-at-the-new-parsifal-at-the-metropolitan-opera.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/18/arts/music/parsifal-at-the-metropolitan-opera.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

PS: Perhaps move this thread to the "A Night at the Opera" sub-forum? Just askin'.

[gradus]

Isn't it on R3 too this Saturday (to the chagrin of Jazz fans)?
Probably better to see it in the cinema but if all else fails....

[Flosshilde]

The Met's page gives an approximate running time of 5 hours, 40 minutes, starting at around 12 noon in NYC, so ending ~5:40 PM or so. This would be 11:40 PM GMT.

You're an hour out - the start time in NY is 12.00; on the BBC 5.00, which makes about a 5 hour difference; the finishing time in NY is 5.35, which will make it 10.35 here - the BBC schedule gives 10.30

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The cinema relay starts at 4.45; Cineworld gives a timing of 340 minutes - 5 hours 40 minutes, giving a finishing time of 10.25

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

to the deep chagrin of Jazbo's and humanists who fail to understand references to superior people in art everywhere ...

[Resurrection Man]

And if anyone is reading this from the New York Metropolitan Opera then PLEASE please ask your audience to refrain from inane clapping and save it until the end of an Act. It's not Carmen!

[Flosshilde]

I've got my ticket - but the starting time is given as 4.45. As there is 5-10 minutes waffle on the radio transmisson before the performance starts, does this mean that I'll have to sit through 20 minutes of Margaret 'n' Ira?

It's my first relay visit - can old hands (seeing it at Cineworld) advise? I don't want to turn up at 5 & miss the beginning (& the best seat )

[Anna]

to the deep chagrin of Jazbo's and humanists who fail to understand references to superior people in art everywhere ...

But, we must forgive them their trespasses ..... turn the other cheek, etc

[Il Grande Inquisitor]

I've got my ticket - but the starting time is given as 4.45. As there is 5-10 minutes waffle on the radio transmisson before the performance starts, does this mean that I'll have to sit through 20 minutes of Margaret 'n' Ira?

It's my first relay visit - can old hands (seeing it at Cineworld) advise? I don't want to turn up at 5 & miss the beginning (& the best seat )

You will be blissfully free of Margaret 'n' Ira, thank goodness! Met cinema broadcasts are 'hosted' by one of the Met singers - Deb Voigt does several, but Renee Fleming, Joyce DiDonato and Thomas Hampson also do a few.

Yes, rolling up at 5pm should be fine. It shouldn't start until shortly afterwards. You do, however, get a sense of atmosphere in the minutes leading to curtain-up; shots of the Met auditorium and the audience settling in etc. Take plenty of sustenance for the intervals... unless you want to pay extortionate cinema snack prices.

[Flosshilde]

You will be blissfully free of Margaret 'n' Ira

Although Renee Fleming can grate somewhat

Take plenty of sustenance for the intervals... unless you want to pay extortionate cinema snack prices.

Does that mean that you're not allowed out during the intervals? I was planning on going out to the local chippie during the long interval. (I should have checked when I got my ticket, but forgot)

I'm looking forward to it

[Il Grande Inquisitor]

Does that mean that you're not allowed out during the intervals? I was planning on going out to the local chippie during the long interval. (I should have checked when I got my ticket, but forgot)

You should be free to wander off in the intervals - am starting to wish we had a chippie nearby, now!