Met 'Live' ??

[Frances_iom]

Anyone know why today's Met is a 36year old recording - and why broadcast a recording as 'Live' (I know american advertising is not exactly known to be truthful but wasn't the BBC taken to court over this type of deception) - and why broadcast a recording at the awkward time forced by the USA not having adopted a worldwide standard re changes to daylight saving

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

and then cut JRR

[Il Grande Inquisitor]

Anyone know why today's Met is a 36year old recording - and why broadcast a recording as 'Live' (I know american advertising is not exactly known to be truthful but wasn't the BBC taken to court over this type of deception) - and why broadcast a recording at the awkward time forced by the USA not having adopted a worldwide standard re changes to daylight saving

No idea about the timing or why it's under the title Met 'Live', but presumably the reason for this broadcast is that there's no scheduled performance of La forza del destino in this Verdi bicentenary, so they're dragged one up from the archives to fill a Saturday slot. If they're just replaying the original tapes, does this mean we get Peter Allen introducing?!

[Nick Armstrong]

and then cut JRR

I saw that listing and felt for the jazzers in our midst. Who wants some old Verdi performance. Shove it on TtN, if you must

[Il Grande Inquisitor]

Who wants some old Verdi performance. Shove it on TtN, if you must

Do I have to send the boys round again, Caliban? You remember what happened after your last brush with the Inquisition?

[Anna]

I saw that listing and felt for the jazzers in our midst. Who wants some old Verdi performance. Shove it on TtN, if you must

And I've commented on the 'JRR Redacted again' thread about it. It's just not on (or are Met opera fans so set in their ways they have to have this early kick-off whereas Jazzers are seen as so desperate to hear anything on R3 they can be fobbed off by meagre pickings at any old hour?)

[JFLL]

Anyone know why today's Met is a 36year old recording - and why broadcast a recording as 'Live' (I know american advertising is not exactly known to be truthful but wasn't the BBC taken to court over this type of deception) - and why broadcast a recording at the awkward time forced by the USA not having adopted a worldwide standard re changes to daylight saving

Meanwhile, we seem to get almost no live opera from the continent of Europe. Why should that be? Expense? Rights? No speaka da lingo?

[Il Grande Inquisitor]

If they're just replaying the original tapes, does this mean we get Peter Allen introducing?!

Nope. It's Margaret and her nodding dog, Ira...

[kernelbogey]

And I've commented on the 'JRR Redacted again' thread about it. It's just not on (or are Met opera fans so set in their ways they have to have this early kick-off whereas Jazzers are seen as so desperate to hear anything on R3 they can be fobbed off by meagre pickings at any old hour?)

I have much sympathy for the jazz-fans in this matter. But... the Met broadcasts are taken live by stations all over the world and I guess that the choice of a matinee performance in New York reflects the need to position the broadcast at an optimum time for world-wide listening. This may seem perverse in the case of broadcasting old tapes, but from a marketing and branding perspective, which I imagine is much on Peter Gelb's mind, it would make sense to keep this in the series, and so at the usual time.

(As it happens I didn't listen in last night.)

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

I have much sympathy for the jazz-fans in this matter. But... the Met broadcasts are taken live by stations all over the world and I guess that the choice of a matinee performance in New York reflects the need to position the broadcast at an optimum time for world-wide listening.

I think you're right, kernel, but the broadcasts are marketed as "Live from the Met" - and, whilst there is an argument for shunting the schedules around for a Live event (albeit one which has an equally strong counter-argument) to do so for a recording merely seems to exacerbate the exasperation that we listeners feel who want to hear one of the rare Jazz programmes. It seems a flagrant V-sign to the Corporation's supposed "commitment" to Jazz.

[kernelbogey]

[...] a flagrant V-sign to the Corporation's supposed "commitment" to Jazz.

That'll be a Verdi-sign then ...
(and I take your point).

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

That'll be a Verdi-sign then ...
(and I take your point).

[Richard Tarleton]

Drawn by the legendary cast I listened in to the first scene, as I'm very fond of this ramshackle sprawl of an opera (which somebody, possibly Roger Parker, said should really be titled "The Power of Coincidence" ). It merely confirmed everything I dislike about Met broadcasts - boxy sound, too much applause (including for the sets, and for people merely coming onstage, which is annoying of you're listening on radio, not to mention the dreadful announcers). I didn't think L Pryce sounded at her best. I don't have a view on JRR but an baffled as to why they broadcast this.

[Flosshilde]

The matinee yesterday was La Traviata, which is also the matinee next week (presumably because it's very popular?), when it will be broadcast. Presumably the Met felt that while there was sufficient demand for it being the matinee two weeks running there wasn't for it being broadcast twice, so put on a 36 year old recording of another opera in its place during the normal live slot. Which still doesn't answer the question of why the Beeb chose to broadcast it, unless it's to do with the agreement with the Met. I think I'm right in saying that it's not simply an agreement between the Met & the Beeb, but with the EBU as a whole, which could complicate things more.

[Old Grumpy]

And I've commented on the 'JRR Redacted again' thread about it. It's just not on (or are Met opera fans so set in their ways they have to have this early kick-off whereas Jazzers are seen as so desperate to hear anything on R3 they can be fobbed off by meagre pickings at any old hour?)

Message from planet Jazz -

Thanks for the solidarity, Anna!

P.S. and Caliban, of course.