It includes this tidbit about something which, like the original Mattila Salome (filmed but unreleased), the Met really should offer for sale despite overlap:
However, Ms. Stratas, who canceled often, did not feel up to the broadcast [of Berg's Lulu] and Levine had to go with a substitute, Julia Migenes-Johnson. For three decades, the general public never saw Ms. Stratas as Lulu, a major missed opportunity.I know a number of operabloggers are Stratasphiles -- did any attend?
But the dress rehearsal was taped, and the Guild showed a section of it on Thursday.
I was there and the films were exciting. It incuded european movies from her collection that I can't find onsale anywhere, like her Bartered Bride (in German, filmed in the original czech town). She was charming for an event that lasted 3 hours, I think the audience could have stayed up until midnight.
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