Submitted by daniel quinn, Dec 27, 2006 16:49

How else is one to communicate w/the myopic reaches of The Met, after I saw barely passable performanbces of FAUST, FORZA, CARMEN, and a non-challant Rigoletto. As one who remembers staggering performances by Norman treigle, Carol Neblett, Franco Corelli, and Beverlky Sills, my only impression of the new met is the hype.

I think boo's should be welcome more often, especially if one is paying a prime amount of money for secondary or tertiary performances or worse at the Met and the City Opera... At a recent City Opera Boheme the best I could say about the tenor was that he tried to sing the role...

Having heard the debut of Rolando Villazon in Lyons, Jose Carrerras at the City Opera, and Ermanno Muro,

there is hope and I was mesmerized by Joseph Calleja's broadcast of Rigoletto, but when I saw it for the first time at the Met last season, no one made an impression on me...

Tonight I see Julie Taymor's, now I mean Mozart's Flute at the Met...

We'll see...

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