tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5630356600537382212.post894733616049235614..comments2024-03-26T04:25:27.186-07:00Comments on Seattle Opera Blog: Battle ReadySeattle Operahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04003665787231048819noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5630356600537382212.post-21773340837676533332010-08-27T07:04:05.914-07:002010-08-27T07:04:05.914-07:00Hallo, Ms. Tweeddale (& Jon)!
Thanks for a wel...Hallo, Ms. Tweeddale (& Jon)!<br />Thanks for a well-reasoned report on the "State of Seattle Opera"!!<br />On one point, however, I do disagree: Opera in operahouses has not been "done in" in the past´and will not be "done in" in the future by electronic media. Even TV and opera on DVD have not lessened the crowds that fill McCaw's 2900 seats for sooo many performances. If those have not shrunk audience-sizes, I am convinced that no other electronic device can beat the pleasureof being at a live performance of an opera, truly the "gesamtest" of Gesamtkünstwerke!!!!<br />Opera has a great future as long as it is managed by people of the high quality of Speight Jenkins and Kelly Tweeddale and presented on stage by artists the quality of Annalena Persson, Clifton Forbis, and Greer Grimsley, conducted by as truly great a musician as Asher Fisch!!!!! And they all sound far better live in an opera house than in any other medium!!!!!!!!!!!!!!<br />Tschüß,<br />Win H. (in Germany, where audiences still fill operahouses night after night; though not as full as Seattle Opera draws them at the McCaw!!!)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5630356600537382212.post-35625728833561170022010-08-11T21:34:43.469-07:002010-08-11T21:34:43.469-07:00Well said!!Well said!!Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07127415584980849511noreply@blogger.com