Great article echoing my own feelings on the Letterman debacle, from Sounds and Fury. A brief excerpt:
if it was the Met's intention to convince those who never attend opera because they know it's stuffy, old-fashioned fare involving a bunch of screeching singers who just stand there dressed up in antique costumes making exaggerated gestures to no purpose while singing everything, none of it meaningful or of any importance, instead of speaking it like normal human beings, all to music that was passé a century ago, that they were right all along, then it succeeded brilliantly.
Run-on sentence aside, my thoughts exactly. Thank you Met, for proving opera-haters everywhere right.
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