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仕事でしばらくモスクワに行ってたので書き込みできなかったわ。
またここから仕切りなおしですわね。
ところでこのところ仕事が忙しくてオペラどころではないの。
どなたかあまり頭を使わず楽しめるオペラをご存じないかしら？

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Brown-Bagging With Bizet and Others at City Opera’s Afternoon Arias
Suzanne DeChillo/The New York Times

The New York City Opera is taking seriously the business of finding new audiences. Last year
it opened its season with Opera-for-All, an inexpensive series of performances meant to lure
the uninitiated or the impecunious, and this season it is expanding the program to four nights
(Sept. 7 to 10) from two, including a concert of excerpts, two full performances of “La Bohe`me”
and one of “Carmen,” at $25 a ticket. And as a way of drawing attention to Opera-for-All the
company is presenting Afternoon Arias, a series of free lunchtime concerts at Bryant Park this
week.

At the first concert, on Tuesday, five young singers from the company’s roster ― Inna Dukach
and Alison Trainer, sopranos; Kathryn Friest-Allyn, mezzo-soprano; Dinyar Vania, tenor; and
Michael Corvino, baritone ― sang arias and ensembles, with Gerald Steichen accompanying
them at the piano.

Not surprisingly, given the point of the afternoon, the music was wrapped in a thick layer of
promotional chatter. Between selections Jeff Spurgeon, an announcer from WQXR (the radio
station owned by The New York Times) and Cori Ellison, a translator and dramaturge, talked
about Opera-for-All and how to buy tickets, the City Opera’s history, the joys of supertitles
and why opera is so special.

Since the company’s obvious presumption is that it isn’t preaching to the choir, it could have
gone even further in its pursuit of nonoperagoers by pitching the concerts not as selections of
opera hits, but as avant-garde events. Surely no one would have accused the company of
exaggeration if it had billed the series, in the spirit of John Cage, as Ambient Experiment X:
“Amplified Arias With Traffic and Construction Sounds, Air-Brakes and Sirens” (2006). Nor
could anyone have disputed that it lived up to its billing.

Amid the roar of Manhattan at lunchtime, though, the singers offered hints of what they can do.
Ms. Friest-Allyn in particular had the power to cut through the sonic haze in selections from
“Carmen” and “Hansel and Gretel.” Ms. Trainer gave a shapely account of “Somebody,
Somewhere” from “The Most Happy Fella.” Ms. Dukach, Mr. Vania and Mr. Corvino made
themselves heard more fleetingly but sang pleasantly ― and sometimes plangently ― enough
to suggest that at the New York State Theater their contributions might be more substantial.

The remaining Afternoon Arias concerts by singers from the New York City Opera, at Bryant
Park, are today and Friday.

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これからもよろしくね

あたしにとって頭を使わないオペラといえば＜エレクトラ＞ね。
ひたすら絶叫と管弦楽の大音響に身を任せていればいいんですもの。

そうね、エレクトラもいいかも。