Manager Peter Gelb is leading the way in attracting a new, younger audience to New York's Metropolitan Opera, but at what cost?
In Peter Gelb's office at the Metropolitan Opera, New York, there's a screen that's flush with the wall so it resembles a window. It captures whatever is happening on the Met's stage – so its general manager's eye can be trained on rehearsals and performances all day long. When I visit, the set of Philip Glass's Satyagraha is being taken down, to be replaced, a little later, by that of Don Giovanni (both productions have British directors, to whom we will return).
It is appropriate that Gelb's eye on his operatic kingdom is via a screen, for cinema has become the company's boom area. Gelb claims it will reap $10m–$12m (£6.4m–£7.7m) net profit from this, its sixth season of live HD transmissions into cinemas. Donizetti...
In Peter Gelb's office at the Metropolitan Opera, New York, there's a screen that's flush with the wall so it resembles a window. It captures whatever is happening on the Met's stage – so its general manager's eye can be trained on rehearsals and performances all day long. When I visit, the set of Philip Glass's Satyagraha is being taken down, to be replaced, a little later, by that of Don Giovanni (both productions have British directors, to whom we will return).
It is appropriate that Gelb's eye on his operatic kingdom is via a screen, for cinema has become the company's boom area. Gelb claims it will reap $10m–$12m (£6.4m–£7.7m) net profit from this, its sixth season of live HD transmissions into cinemas. Donizetti...
- 12/9/2011
- by Charlotte Higgins
- The Guardian - Film News
Disney's robot fight flick and the Brit-dominated Dumas retelling post poor returns as Rowan Atkinson's spy has the last laugh
The four-way faceoff
It's unusual for so many major features to debut together at 350 cinemas or more, but the start of the October half-term holiday in the UK saw four new films enter the fray in wide release. None landed a knockout punch, with holdover titles Johnny English Reborn and The Lion King 3D convincingly remaining top choices for families.
Top newbie over the Friday-Sunday weekend period was Disney's pricey robot boxing flick Real Steel, grossing a mediocre £1.34m. But thanks to previews on Wednesday and Thursday totalling £428,000, The Three Musketeers lands one place above it in the official chart, with a five-day debut of £1.46m. Considering Real Steel opened in the Us with $27.3m, the UK result is about half what you might expect. Musketeers has yet to open stateside,...
The four-way faceoff
It's unusual for so many major features to debut together at 350 cinemas or more, but the start of the October half-term holiday in the UK saw four new films enter the fray in wide release. None landed a knockout punch, with holdover titles Johnny English Reborn and The Lion King 3D convincingly remaining top choices for families.
Top newbie over the Friday-Sunday weekend period was Disney's pricey robot boxing flick Real Steel, grossing a mediocre £1.34m. But thanks to previews on Wednesday and Thursday totalling £428,000, The Three Musketeers lands one place above it in the official chart, with a five-day debut of £1.46m. Considering Real Steel opened in the Us with $27.3m, the UK result is about half what you might expect. Musketeers has yet to open stateside,...
- 10/18/2011
- by Charles Gant
- The Guardian - Film News
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