John Rudy: Beechwood thanked for operas
With the close of the opera season, let me express gratitude to Beechwood Cinemas for offering the magnificent "Live HD" operas transmitted direct from the New York stage on Saturday afternoons. This expansion of great opera, great music and great artistry for greater Athens music lovers is a signal benefit to our community.
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The performances, shown in high definition in real time from the Manhattan stage, are in many respects more beautiful, dramatic and thrilling for the audience in Athens than for the Metropolitan Opera fans in Lincoln Center. They are closer, more intimate, more realistic than the "originals." I know, for we attended the Met in New York for many years, loved it and still do but are thrilled by the cinema technique and quality, boosted by the entr'acte comments and views of the stars, stage directors and conductors, whom one gets to know as individuals, even friends.
The Learning in Retirement Opera Group convenes for early lunches for the Beechwood performances, to explore the opera-of-the-day with the graduate students in Professor Frederick Burchinal's opera department at the University of Georgia School of Music - an extra bonus for us fans. The combination of Beechwood, the School of Music and LIR is phenomenal.
To have all this for prices one-third the cost of tickets to Lincoln Center is a gift for our community, from the Metropolitan Opera and from our own Beechwood Cinemas. Bravo! And thanks!
John Rudy - Watkinsville
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