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It's all about the music, dude! Sit down, relax and listen to some tunes.

RE: Big B and I (and our wives) are off to LA tomorrow. . .

Complain all you want about so called "Eurotrash elements," but at least they're taking risks.

The biggest problem with the Met, best exemplified by the new Ring, is that they are completely scared to do anything but uber conventional productions. They try to do something different, such as with "Tosca," everyone revolts, and then these same people wonder why the new Ring is so painfully conventional and straightforward -- pretty much every critic and regular patron agrees it was a total wasted opportunity. If audiences didn't push the Met into being so risk adverse there would have been a much greater chance of getting something original and bold.

And it's also nicely coincidental that this post is about "Don Giovanni." This season's new "Don Giovanni" was so boringly standard that it doesn't make sense why they bothered to put together a new production -- do we really need yet another period production with a 100% literal interpretation of the libretto?

I rather have opera take risks and fail from time to time than keep doing the same thing over, and over again.


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