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The Met Saturday Morning Broadcasts are back.....

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Starting this Saturday at 10 pst, 1:00 est
Opening broadcast.....


December 10, 2022
Kevin Puts’ The Hours
New Production/Met Premiere
Yannick Nézet-Séguin; Renée Fleming (Clarissa Vaughan), Kelli O’Hara (Laura Brown), Joyce DiDonato (Virginia Woolf), Kathleen Kim (Barbara / Mrs. Latch), Sylvia D’Eramo (Kitty / Vanessa), Denyce Graves (Sally), John Holiday (Man Under the Arch / Hotel Clerk), William Burden (Louis), Sean Panikkar (Leonard Woolf), Kyle Ketelsen (Richard), Brandon Cedel (Dan Brown)

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Woodduck said:
I didn't bring up the idea of making Rosenkavalier an aria-recitative opera or a Singspiel, but I did think of both possibilities,
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Or it can be both and have accompagnatos, like
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Woodduck said:
Idomeneo is quite a different beast from Mozart's social comedies.
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It also doesn't share that characteristic "practice of phrase repeats", does it? (I totally understand your reservations about the practice.)
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Woodduck said:
I found myself wishing that the role of Idamante had been composed for tenor rather than castrato soprano
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"A concert performance was given in 1786 at the Palais Auersperg in Vienna. For this, Mozart wrote some new music, made some cuts, and changed Idamante from a castrato to a tenor."

There are performances/recordings of the later version, you know. Eg)
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MAS said:
the longueurs in Mozart operas are entirely due to the recitativi, in my view
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What do you think of the recitatives in Cosi fan tutte directed by Sellars? (And also btw Don Alfonso's facial expressions?)
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Woodduck said:
Ana Maria Martinez was a manic and, apparently, funny Elvira (she sometimes rolled her Rs in a comical way)
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Was it her Spanish accent?
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