Did I just...what the--?

[ysobelle]

So I'm watching a tribute to Joe Volpe, the retiring General Manager of the Metropolitan Opera. Everyone and their cousin is there-- Placido Domingo, Kiri TeKanawa, you name 'em. They finish an instrumental passage from Eugene Onegin, highlighting the scenebuilders, and at the end, the scenery starts rising, and-- what the hell? Are you freakin' kidding me? That's a WHOLE OTHER SET rising into place!

Yeah, yeah, I'm late to the party, but I've never been to The Met. Nor have I ever seen a theatre that had enough space/money to have TWO stages. My G-d, you could do the most complex set changes on the PLANET in under 10 seconds. Swoon!


ETA: And it TURNS! It fully rotates!

And Placido Domingo is also a conductor! Who knew!


Enough shock for one night. I simply must lie down.

Comments

duh.

[surlywench.livejournal.com]

hello..Nikki, it's the *MET* they've got more money than god! (although still less than the pope, interestinly enough...)

so...about the whole pen post...I'm guessing the metal cashbox is out the window too? c'mon! go for the anachronism!!!! do it...you know you wanna!

-H

Re: duh.

[ysobelle.livejournal.com]

BWAHAHAHAHAAHHAA! I love you.



And yeah, the metal cash box is just...sigh. What's worse is that I may run credit cards through my laptop. Whimper. I may set up a screen around it, though. This is all a work in progress!

Re: duh.

[surlywench.livejournal.com]

tangee (the owner of the mask booth I worked at after that fat fucker troy "let me go"....not bitter, there....nope.....not...at...alll)
just ran checks and c.cards thru her cell phone. We had an ear piece, so we could see what we were doing while we did it. It was a little time consuming, since you had to press in all the numbers, but once I got the hang of it, it ran pretty smoothly, even with a booth full of people...and small children...with their sticky fingers..touching things...*shudders* I hate retail....

[christianet.livejournal.com]

Way back when in high school, my Italian class took a field trip to the Met to see "La Boheme," which coincidentally was the first matinee Domingo conducted. The set for "La Boheme" is amazing; Franco Zefirelli designed it. It's the rooftops of Paris, with the walls "cut away" from the artists' garret so you can see inside the room. Unfortunately during the performance, one of the singers knocked a tin cup off the table in the garret while gesturing, and it rolled all the way down to the stage floor hundreds of feet below, quite noisily because the stage area is miked out the yazoo. The singers kind of stared at it as it rolled down, and almost bust out laughing.

Anyway, the way they were able to change from the rooftops to the parade street scene to the music hall with Musette — quite astounding.

[tempest-gypsy.livejournal.com]

*drools* I WANNNA work at the MEEEEEET!!! Oh the fun I could have with their stage machinery.

No, seriously, drooling. You've never seen me backstage. Give me an autmated fly rail and moving lights to play with and I am a HAPPY camper.

[darthvenereal.livejournal.com]

>And Placido Domingo is also a conductor! Who knew!

like on a train? :) well, he's got the voice to announce those boarding calls.