an amazing experience! I am talking about the performance of Elektra by Strauss at the Met last night. A relentless opera, full of fury, very little lyric let up. Sometimes hard to get through, since there is so many declamatory statements in the first part of the play---but the overall effect was intense. From my "perch" in the Family Circle, the sound was great---also had no trouble with the sight lines. Cast was very strong, the late Chereau's staging tries to humanize the characters a great deal (a lot of hugging, even between Clytemnestra and Elektra) --but, the opera is really two hours of an unstoppable force. . The three women leads were terrific--at the curtain calls, everyone seemed ecstatic. My first trip to the Met this year, I really felt comfortable being there, hope that I can go a few more times before the season ends in early May. I will try to see the new production of Cosi, and Luisa Miller---anything else is a possibility but will depend on what else is happening in my life.
Family Circle standing room really works for me---the sound just shoots up at you---one really can absorb it all.
Today, may feel strong enough to try to get in the Bushwick Starr and its production of "the Robot show", a one man show whose title I should be aware of . This may be my only chance to see it, what with all the other projects that I am interested in. Well, you have to take them all one at a time. If I don't get in Syndicated is showing Call Me By Your Name---and since it is nearbye, might just go over there is the play is sold out. It will be nice to be in Bushwick again, after a (for me) long absence.
Will it happen? Will report soon.
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