Did I just...what the--?
Jun. 1st, 2006 10:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ysobelleSo 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.
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.