The Guadalajara Reporter

‘Live From The Met’ revs up for fourth run at Teatro Diana

Anticipation is building as the 2012-13 season of Live From The Met gets under way at Guadalajara’s modern, large-capacity Teatro Diana, one of a handful of locations in Mexico where high-definition, digitally pristine transmissions of 12 live operas will be beamed straight from New York’s Metropolitan Opera house, complete with close-ups and between-acts interviews.

The operas will show on a large screen at noon on 12 Saturdays from October 13 through April 27, 2013.

Residents and visitors to Puerto Vallarta can also watch the operas this year, as the Teatro Vallarta is hosting them for the first time (see box on page four).

“It’s not better than live opera, but it’s a good option, an opportunity to hear singers that will not come to Guadalajara, to see the top level of opera,” said opera producer Ernesto Álvarez, who is perhaps the city’s most visible and engaging music commentator. One of Álvarez’s platforms is the hour-long Spanish commentaries he offers to Live From The Met patrons before the shows at Teatro Diana.

Álvarez sadly noted that live opera in Guadalajara has dried up in recent years, while attendance at the Met events has seemed static.

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