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37 minutes ago, Leah said:
Well, the Met has laid off its orchestra and chorus. To be expected, hopefully this is temporary.
ETA: this would allow them to apply for unemployment so it’s probably a deal with the union.
This suggests that the cancellation of operas will extend beyond Mar 31, although I'm not aware of any formal announcement yet.
Carnegie Hall has officially cancelled all shows through May 10. That comports with the CDC's rec. that all gatherings of 50+ should be suspended for 8 weeks.
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no,I've gotten a credit to my account. Today I requested a refund via email. I received an acknowledgement of my email with a statement that due to the high volume of requests they would be unable to process the request for 7-10 days.
So far the only refunds credited to my credit card have been from the Koch for the YAGP gala and from BAM. I'm waiting on refunds from Carnegie, NY Phil, Met Opera and City Center.
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It's on the Koch website. All YAGP events cancelled. I already got my refund by calling the box office.
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1 hour ago, Kathleen O'Connell said:
The Metropolitan Opera has announced that it will stream operas for free on its website:
From the linked Gothamist article: All “Nightly Met Opera Streams” will begin at 7:30 p.m. and will remain available via the homepage of metopera.org for 20 hours.Gothamis
Here's the schedule:
Monday, March 16 – Bizet’s Carmen (Conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin, starring Elīna Garanča and Roberto Alagna. Transmitted live on January 16, 2010.)
Tuesday, March 17 – Puccini’s La Bohème (Conducted by Nicola Luisotti, starring Angela Gheorghiu and Ramón Vargas. Transmitted live on April 5, 2008.)
Wednesday, March 18 – Verdi’s Il Trovatore (Conducted by Marco Armiliato, starring Anna Netrebko, Dolora Zajick, Yonghoon Lee, and Dmitri Hvorostovsky. Transmitted live on October 3, 2015.)
Thursday, March 19 – Verdi’s La Traviata (Conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin, starring Diana Damrau, Juan Diego Flórez, and Quinn Kelsey. Transmitted live on December 15, 2018.)
Friday, March 20 – Donizetti’s La Fille du Régiment (Conducted by Marco Armiliato, starring Natalie Dessay and Juan Diego Flórez. Transmitted live on April 26, 2008.)
Saturday, March 21 – Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor (Conducted by Marco Armiliato, starring Anna Netrebko, Piotr Beczała, and Mariusz Kwiecien. Transmitted live on February 7, 2009.)
Sunday, March 22 – Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin (Conducted by Valery Gergiev, starring Renée Fleming, Ramón Vargas, and Dmitri Hvorostovsky. Transmitted live on February 24, 2007.)
PS: I'm not sure there's enough worldwide bandwidth to accommodate everything that's going to have to happen on line! Lots of schools plan to use online distance learning; there's going to be an uptick in telemedicine; more people will be streaming entertainment in general, be it movies, TV, or online video games, etc etc etc!
The Fleming Hvorostovsky Onegin is a gem. It's the only opera performance that has ever brought tears to my eyes.
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CDC is recommending no gatherings of more than 50 people for the next 8 weeks.
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Arts organizations can purchase business interruption insurance. The Broadway theaters were waiting for Cuomo to ban gatherings of over 1,000 people before they announced the shut downs. The government edict was essential to the decision to close from the standpoint of being able to collect the insurance.
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The Youth America Grand Prix at the Koch is cancelled.
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30 minutes ago, nanushka said:
That's nuts. The tickets are sold from the same box office and the same website. You can even use Met Opera gift cards for ABT tickets.
I've been down this road with Met in prior seasons. The folks at the box office have said that ABT is a separate entity, so any funds in the opera account cannot be applied to purchase ballet tickets.
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1 minute ago, Leah said:
They’re saying you can still convert the credit to your account as a refund. Apparently you can do that in your account but I haven’t figured out how.
If you figure it out please share. I do not see any way to convert the funds to a refund just by logging into my account. I have many opera tickets in March and hell will freeze over before I allow all that money to end up as a Met donation.
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They are swamped with refund requests. They have automatically applied my refund for my Sat opera tixs to my Met Opera account, without my consent. However my understanding is that if you do not use the money by the end of the current Met Season (May 2020) it converts to a donation to the Met. Also you cannot apply your Met Opera account funds to ABT tickets. This will probably take hours of being on hold to resolve.
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1 hour ago, Helene said:
The Met Opera had two more March performances of La Traviata on their schedule, both of which have been cancelled. This production does have ballet in it. In the last one they broadcast, Mearns was announced during the curtain calls, but they don't list the dancers among the casting on their website, so we can't tell whether or not she was scheduled to dance in the two cancelled performances from it.
I really wanted to see Lisette Oropessa in Traviata but the remaining performances this season are cancelled. Fortunately she will return next season for a few Traviata performances.
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All Broadway shows are cancelled through April 12.
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Carnegie Hall and the Met Opera are closed through March 31,
also the NY Philharmonic.
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World Figure Skating Championships are cancelled. Hanyu had been planning to do the quad axel at the competition next week.
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mARCH 19, 2020 AIR DATE. THE SYNOPSIS APPEARS TO USE THE NYCB - FINLAY DEBACLE AS THE FOCAL PLOT POINT.
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56 minutes ago, Becki Lee said:
All of Misty’s March performances are pulled.
Skylar is taking her Giselle in Carolina.
If Misty can't do Deuce Coupe, which is in character shoes, she must have a significant problem. She is still listed for R^ in late March, but that will likely change in the near future.
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I'm well aware that Puerto Ricans are US citizens. The point is that in Puerto Rico, they are not entitled to free ' things' that are available on the mainland,. Further this incarnation of the musical is referencing immigrants in a broad way.
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I thoight they changed a line in America in the Broadway show. The original lyric is everything free in America. I believe it is now everyone free in America. The original lyric indicates that foreigners come here for free things, not for freedom itself.
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I've read that the Royal Opera intends to proceed with planned performnces starring Domingo. This seems like the height of hypocrisy, since they fired Grigolo for a single offense. Domingo has been engaging in this unsavory conduct for decades.
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This opera will be broadcast in cinemas this Saturday, Feb 29.
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https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/25/arts/dance/city-ballet-swan-lake.html
NY Times review of the various SL casts. I do wish NYCB would preserve Mearns' SL on film. It is exquisite. I thought her performance with Cote rivaled the best performances I have seen over the years, such as the old days of Nina Ananiashvilli at ABT. Additionally, I thought she had more of a deep connection to Cote than with any of her prior NYCB partners (i.e., the Angle brothers).
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https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/25/arts/dance/clive-barnes-awards-finalists.html
Nominees include India Bradley and Roman Mejia from NYCB and Aran Bell from ABT.
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I think Odile was always going to be a big stretch for Lovette. She is not a company member who is regularly given killer technical roles. Those roles go to Bouder, Fairchild and Peck. Under Martins, the very difficult roles also used to go to Indiana Woodward. I think Lovette is more of a lyrical dancer, but that's not enough for this role. Aurora was a difficult role, but it does not require a great turner. Lovette just seemed unprepared and under-rehearsed. This does not speak well for the preparation provided by our current management team.
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I was wondering the exact same thing.