PJ, I should have clarified that I saw it last year with all three of them, plus Kaufmann. Terfel and Blythe are incredible for sure. I'm not crazy about LePage's production (or Voigt's Brunnhilde) so I decided not to go out of my way this year to see it again once Kaufmann cancelled. So, my Met season ends on Friday with VEC MAKROPULOS.
(Also, don't forget the amazing Eva Marie Westbroek! I can't wait to see her in Francesca di Rimini next season)
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body