Gothamist: The Met Moves Outdoors Tonight

famdoc

Sat, 21 Jun 2008 07:15:52 -0500

Read the Times article. Met Director Peter Gelb has taken a different approach to this summer's concert, choosing to bring high-profile stars to the concert, doing a single performance in what he considers the city's geographic center. It was a fabulous performance: weather was perfect, the stars were charismatic and chose a combination of interesting material and traditional crowd pleasers. Several high-def video screens were set up along with speaker towers. I think they anticipated 100,000+ people. I'd guess there were more like 25,000, but the show was excellent.

lila

Sat, 21 Jun 2008 02:31:01 -0500

Why aren't they doing a Manhattan performance this year? The Met usually does 2 Central Park performances each summer, and I am so bummed they aren't this year.

Sparafucil

Fri, 20 Jun 2008 17:40:40 -0500

"Among the numbers on the program are duets from Bizet’s 'Pêcheurs de Perles,' Delibes’s 'Lakme' and Donizetti’s 'Lucia di Lammermoor,' as well as arias from Catalani’s 'Wally' and Puccini’s 'Tosca' and 'Madama Butterfly.'"

sonyactivision

Fri, 20 Jun 2008 17:07:11 -0500

Roll a phat spliff and pass it around.