#1
Posted: 12/1/06 at 6:13pm
I love broadway. Musicals, Straight Plays, love it. I love the diversity of the shows. I love all of it. I think I might have found something just as good if not better though.
The Metropolitan Opera. For this season and this season only two wonderful people have sponsored 20 dollar rush tickets to shows from Mon-Thurs. There are 200 avilable for each performance...lemme say that again...200! The tickets can be bought with cash or CC, and the rush tix line opens at 6pm. People get there at about 3:30 to sit and wait. I have seen 3 already and its beautiful evening of art. You think La Boheme was good on bway, come see Domingo conduct it at the Met.
I have only seen a few operas but I can tell you that the Met has some of the most amazing performers I have ever seen. Comparable to only La Scala, its the greatest Opera House in the World (a patron told me that one night while seeing Tosca), and you can see it for 20 bucks! I mean La Boheme for 20 bucks?
It's production values are incrediby opulent and simple at the same time. There is a 30-50 piece orchestra (where you get MAYBE 15 piece on bway), amazingly respectful audiences, and singers that make your hair stand on end. And they actually ACT! its incredible. These people are singing high c's and q's and they are acting through it. maybe I am being naive, and people are already aware of the passion of seeing an Opera but I am a neophyte to the arena of the art and I am incredibly impressed.
I don't work for the MET. They don't need me shilling anyway as they have money for eons to come. I just thought with all the bitching and moaning about where bway is going, maybe try seeing something different. I mean, Bartler Sher and Jack O'Brien are directing there this season. People who LOVED hairspray and Piazza, go see what they do with Opera.
For 20 bucks you can't go wrong.
Met
The Metropolitan Opera. For this season and this season only two wonderful people have sponsored 20 dollar rush tickets to shows from Mon-Thurs. There are 200 avilable for each performance...lemme say that again...200! The tickets can be bought with cash or CC, and the rush tix line opens at 6pm. People get there at about 3:30 to sit and wait. I have seen 3 already and its beautiful evening of art. You think La Boheme was good on bway, come see Domingo conduct it at the Met.
I have only seen a few operas but I can tell you that the Met has some of the most amazing performers I have ever seen. Comparable to only La Scala, its the greatest Opera House in the World (a patron told me that one night while seeing Tosca), and you can see it for 20 bucks! I mean La Boheme for 20 bucks?
It's production values are incrediby opulent and simple at the same time. There is a 30-50 piece orchestra (where you get MAYBE 15 piece on bway), amazingly respectful audiences, and singers that make your hair stand on end. And they actually ACT! its incredible. These people are singing high c's and q's and they are acting through it. maybe I am being naive, and people are already aware of the passion of seeing an Opera but I am a neophyte to the arena of the art and I am incredibly impressed.
I don't work for the MET. They don't need me shilling anyway as they have money for eons to come. I just thought with all the bitching and moaning about where bway is going, maybe try seeing something different. I mean, Bartler Sher and Jack O'Brien are directing there this season. People who LOVED hairspray and Piazza, go see what they do with Opera.
For 20 bucks you can't go wrong.
Met
