![]() Opened in 1883 and demolished in 1967, it was the first home of the Metropolitan Opera Company. We are most-happy to be here one more night, with everyone having a good one “under the belt” and ready for more… Excited. The Metropolitan Opera House was an opera house located at 1411 Broadway in Manhattan, New York City. Still, seems to go very well, with the fun spirit of the last show, and the dancing that is… hard to describe, but it works!Ībove: Pete and Alfie Boe with (left) conductor, Robert Ziegler. Tanglewood was fun, but this IS opera-level stuff. The energy changed here, it IS more serious and important. Beautiful – and they’ve never done it here before, even the locals are quite impressed by the idea. ![]() When the orchestra starts into ‘I Am The Sea’ – the chandeliers start to raise slowly together over everyone’s heads, and dim slowly as they raise to the high ceiling. Tom noticed this and asked for something special. Most inspired, they have crystal chandeliers around the room, which are normally switched off and then raised out of the way when house lights go down. Just nice mood changes and subtle shifts of color. David McVicar captivating new staging also stars Matthew Polenzani as. Still, he’s on the tasteful side, as it’s not a rock event. Svetlana Sozdateleva makes an exciting Met debut as the fiery femme fatale at the. Tom Kenny’s lighting choices change per venue, and tonight he can use “smoke” the soft fog that make lights beam into three-dimensional space. There is an elevator here backstage large enough to move several large trucks at once! I’m told there is enough floor space onstage and offstage to cover 3 football fields. The staging options for shows here are incredible, as opera scenery is massive at times, dwarfing any Broadway or London West End musical. The stage itself is much deeper than Tanglewood, yet is filled with players and singers. There are five balcony levels, rising vertically and steeply to the high roof. The feel is different, a very velvety rich room with very high ceilings and chandeliers. And it marks the arrival of Quadrophenia – Tommy‘s strong but less-famous sibling album – in a truly operatic world.Ĭountless masters of traditional and modern opera have been on the stage here, and it’s not often a site for rock musicians. This venue was the 1970 site of the final Tommy show on that tour. You may recall The Who’s early Tommy tour taking them to unusual venues promoting the “opera” side of Tommy, something to wake people up to the fact that this rock/pop band was doing something special. While ALL of these Classic Quadrophenia shows will be special in their own ways, the Met double-header will be hard to beat: The Metropolitan Opera House in New York City. ![]() Pete Townshend’s Classic Quadrophenia: The Metropolitan Opera House, New York, NY, September 9, 2017 ![]()
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