tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12657288.post115263596886348966..comments2024-01-07T06:59:04.212-05:00Comments on The Playgoer: Opera on TapPlaygoerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02994724588504353485noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12657288.post-1152675953007986792006-07-11T23:45:00.000-04:002006-07-11T23:45:00.000-04:00The problem of over-production is happening everyw...The problem of over-production is happening everywhere theatre happens, I suspect. (I live in a small community with a largish theatre.) Perhaps we should be glad that theatre exists so widely. Even so, the culprit may be technology, which, while it allows this conversation we're having to happen, also allows the technical aspect of theatre to roar forward, while humans, as usual, toddle behind.<BR/><BR/>FrankAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12657288.post-1152651982048310102006-07-11T17:06:00.000-04:002006-07-11T17:06:00.000-04:00Thank you. My hope is that enough people start to ...Thank you. My hope is that enough people start to realize that the true power of theatre comes from, as you said, the immediacy of the performance and the presence of the performer - and then we can reform the theatre from what it is into something that matters again.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12657288.post-1152648130136157072006-07-11T16:02:00.000-04:002006-07-11T16:02:00.000-04:00I must pick a fight with you at some point, but .....I must pick a fight with you at some point, but ... I agree with you yet again. <BR/><BR/>Recently, my downstairs neighbor, who's a budding operatic soprano, invited people to her apartment for an impromptu concert--she and a friend hired a pianist and did a short recital. I've been to a lot of opera, and I've heard singers with much more developed technique and infinitely better instruments, but I've never felt the peculiar force of classical singing quite so strongly. <BR/><BR/>Many of the guests had never heard true sopranos before--some were freaked out, but most were intrigued and impressed.Junehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05148540072557982068noreply@blogger.com