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Met Opera Live, Nationwide
Opera is supposed to be elitist and inaccessible, but ironically cinema is coming to its rescue. New York's Metropolitan Opera has become a global leader in the field, and three of its productions stream live in HD in cinemas across the country this month: Mozart's La Clemenza Di Tito, Verdi's Un Ballo In Maschera (updated to a film-noirish context) and his Egyptian epic, Aïda. It might not be the same as the live experience, but it's a damn sight cheaper, and truly different.
Picturehouse & Curzon cinemas & various venues, Sat to 27 Dec
Jonas Mekas, London
Mekas is just about the last surviving link to the golden postwar age of American avant garde film-making, which has been a well of inspiration for modern cinema, indie and mainstream. He helped preserve the work of Andy Warhol,...
Met Opera Live, Nationwide
Opera is supposed to be elitist and inaccessible, but ironically cinema is coming to its rescue. New York's Metropolitan Opera has become a global leader in the field, and three of its productions stream live in HD in cinemas across the country this month: Mozart's La Clemenza Di Tito, Verdi's Un Ballo In Maschera (updated to a film-noirish context) and his Egyptian epic, Aïda. It might not be the same as the live experience, but it's a damn sight cheaper, and truly different.
Picturehouse & Curzon cinemas & various venues, Sat to 27 Dec
Jonas Mekas, London
Mekas is just about the last surviving link to the golden postwar age of American avant garde film-making, which has been a well of inspiration for modern cinema, indie and mainstream. He helped preserve the work of Andy Warhol,...
- 12/1/2012
- by Steve Rose
- The Guardian - Film News
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