http://blogcritics.org/ A sinister cabal of superior bloggers on music, books, film, popular culture, politics, and technology - updated continuously. en Copyright 2002-2006 by the authors Mon, 28 Aug 2006 08:52:01 EDT http://backend.userland.com/rss Blogcritics.org custom software http://blogcritics.org/archives/2006/08/27/102015.php#comment-433687 The annoucement made at the beginning of a broadcast saying that the concert had originally taken place at some other date was usually the give away. No I know that they were mostly live, but some of them wern't as not even the Met will be running a different Opera every Saturday for 52 weeks of the year. Richard ]]> 433687@blogcritics.org Mon, 28 Aug 2006 08:52:01 EDT http://blogcritics.org/archives/2006/08/27/102015.php#comment-433463 I am glad you came to appreciate opera. What makes you think that the broadcasts were not in fact live? They were and still are. In fact, one came to a dead stop and was cancelled quite a few years ago when a man jumped from a balcony to his death during an intermission. That's one of the things that makes the broadcasts so exciting, they are happening as you hear them. ]]> 433463@blogcritics.org Sun, 27 Aug 2006 19:25:36 EDT http://blogcritics.org/archives/2006/08/27/102015.php#comment-433323 When young I thought opera ludicrous. Why would people do all those crazy things for love? But then... ]]> 433323@blogcritics.org Sun, 27 Aug 2006 12:08:10 EDT