125th Anniversary of the Metropolitan Opera

with Penny Woolcock and Peter Gelb
in Movies, TV & Theater
on Friday, September 19, 2008 * * * * *

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A discussion about the 125th Anniversary of the Metropolitan Opera with Peter Gelb, General Manager of the Metropolitan Opera and Penny Woolcock, director of Doctor Atomic

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    1. Janice Peters  09/24/2008 09:09 PM Report

      1000 Thanks to Peter Gelb! His intelligence and insight must be in the genes (I read and thoroughly enjoyed his parents biography of Eugene O'Neill). What he is doing for those of us who love opera, and who were afraid it was a dying art, is wonderful. The HD presentations I've been to have been astonishingly well-attended here in the midwest. The love for the art form is apparently there; the easy access to a mainstage production was what was needed. Thank you Mr Gelb!

    2. coc dupont-gough  09/24/2008 10:00 AM Report

      If Mr Gelb pretends to be Miss Fleming's friend, then 'God preserve her from her ennemies' What a unpalatable wind bag, somebody silence him, please. What a pompous, horrible, little man. As far as world opera houses are concerned, he only underlines his insularity time and time again.Send him to perdition with a one way ticket.

    3. lise boileau  09/20/2008 05:02 PM Report

      I don't know that much, but I love.

      Can't analyze ou give details, it's a whole.

    4. Douglass Montrose-Graem  09/20/2008 01:39 AM Report

      My perspective of 'Doctor Atomic' - I was introduced in 1954, soon after my arrival in the USA, to two key scientists: Teller ['Father of the H-Bomb'\ and Szilard, both Hungarians, by my Hungarian Step-Father, Dr. Tibor Eckhardt [nominated President of Hungary in 1946, vetoed by Stalin\ who with some truth kidded me that Hungarian was the unofficial language of the Manhattan Project. Szilard and Teller were leaders of the strong anti-Communist "wing" of the Manhattan Project, Oppenheimer of the Communist " wing".

      I look forward to seeing the opera on a big screen in my hometown Sarasota, Florida, which among others, has the great virtue of running sub-titles, most necessary even when opera sung in English.

      From a momentary glimpse into the inside of the Project I venture to remark that it is potentially one of the richest mines to extract golden drama out of.

    5. sock puppet  09/20/2008 12:31 AM Report

      Unlike many opera is wasted on me. Nonetheless, inasmuch as they seem to gravitate to the melodramatic I might be drawn to one on Armeggeddon. (A sequel to Dr. Atomic?) It's inevitability (doomsday fits my outlook) would add a gravitas that opera seems to feed on.

    6. RE Mant  09/19/2008 11:58 PM Report

      I like opera, but it is indigenous to Italy, not to the US. And it has been moribund for a century, Britten, Adams, etc notwithstanding. It exists only as a kind of academic art, if that's not an oxymoron. That's more their fault than the audiences'. It's not simply a matter of learning to accept new music. Surely we've had enough time since Turandot to do that.