tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10177190.post9177640723608758919..comments2023-11-03T08:57:04.202+00:00Comments on Ópera e Demais Interesses: Met, salas de cinema, velhos do Restelo e ovos de ColomboIl Dissoluto Punitohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09311312302358839131noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10177190.post-75668378220029914662009-02-18T02:05:00.000+00:002009-02-18T02:05:00.000+00:00Aí vai o meu comentário ao artigo do New York Time...Aí vai o meu comentário ao artigo do New York Times de 15/02. Vai haver muitas citações, por isso vai haver muito inglês…<BR/><BR/>“The dissenters say that the movement will lead to more conservative programming”- talvez… talvez…<BR/>“that the voice will become subservient to appearance”- já lá estamos! Vide o caso Deborah Voigt/Covent Garden-Ariadne auf Naxos/Black dress. E o posterior emagrecimento de Debbie Voigt? Como se explica? <BR/>“that listeners will be trained to hear something electronic and lose an appreciation for a live experience.”- o verdadeiro apreciador e connoisseur dirá não a isto! <BR/>“Gerard Mortier, the Belgian impresario, said in a speech last June at a conference of opera managers in Denver that stands as the skeptics’ cri de coeur. “Why go to the cinema? Come to the opera.”- se a Sra. Netrebko não pedir milhões de dólares de cachet, eu até que posso ir… <BR/>“It’s about the live experience of singing people on the stage,” he said. He referred to the myth of Orpheus, whose song charmed the gods in Hades: “Orfeo went himself to the underworld to sing. He didn’t send his videocassette.”- Fraco argumento. Não me diga Mr. Mortier que acredita que Orfeu existiu mesmo… com ou sem videocassette?!...??<BR/>“The Met is even negotiating to send an opera feed to an Argentine base in Antarctica. “Seen by an audience of penguins,” Mr. Gelb joked.”- Como eles podem brincar e rirem-se às gargalhadas!… nós por cá… :-( <BR/>“Mr. Gelb said the program’s success has made the Met more attractive to opera stars craving larger audiences, the international spotlight and maybe the applause of penguins.”- Boa! Eat your heart out, Mr. Villázon!<BR/>“The transmissions, he added, are also largely responsible for a 12 percent growth in ticket sales at the opera house since he took over, although he acknowledged there was no hard evidence for this.”- Atenção! Perigo lá para os lados do Met! Isto pode dar um MetFreeport!:-D<BR/>“The HD broadcasts have had a concrete effect on one area: acting. Singers are now aware that at any moment a live shot can frame them. Every bead of sweat, flap of the tongue, crooked tooth and quiver of the lip is on view. (…)Singers now worry about matters that are usually invisible to house audiences, like spraying saliva when singing consonants, or showing the effort to hit a high note, or turning upstage to clear one’s throat, or winking in support of a duet partner during a clinch, said Susan Graham, the mezzo-soprano”- como apreciador de Ópera há mais de 20 anos nunca me queixei de Callas a lutar pela correcção de uma nota aguda nos poucos registos filmados que há da Diva, de Eva Marton aos BERROS!! na Turandot/Puccini, de Plácido Domingo a babar-se perante Kiri Te Kanawa na Manon Lescaut/Puccini/Covent Garden/Sinopoli/82 ou 83, nem de Jon Vickers a suar em pinga(!!) no IIIºActo do Tristan dos Chorégies d´Orange73… bem até pelo contrário!!...:-)<BR/>“Acting in front of live cameras must not stop with the singing, she added. When a tenor croons of love, the soprano must show the fervor, because a camera may go for a reaction shot. Even the makeup is different, less exaggerated.“We go the extra mile with realism,” Ms. Graham said.”- Ah, cá está! É bom para o género operático!<BR/>“Two former Met subscribers, Richard and Betty Ringenwald of Delanco, N.J., were there. Driving to Lincoln Center had become too burdensome, Ms. Ringenwald said. “You can see everything up close and personal, as if you’re the only person in the theater. (…)Most audience members had been to live opera before; about half had gone at least five times in the previous two years.(…) Few young people went, and the attendees were “mostly white, highly educated and older”: the typical opera house audience, the survey said.”- O contra.<BR/>“The good news for opera companies is that most of those who responded to the survey said they would still go to live performances.”- O Pró.<BR/>É tudo… e já é muito! Muito obrigado pela vossa paciência.<BR/>See ya.<BR/>LGAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com