tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13593902.post8410716509141360905..comments2024-02-11T09:55:50.468-08:00Comments on The Eastside View: SatyagrahaCharles Sherehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10480432901356490235noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13593902.post-39203306238343842952011-12-17T00:55:34.487-08:002011-12-17T00:55:34.487-08:00No no; this was the Metropolitan Opera production,...<em>No no; this was the Metropolitan Opera production, brand new and quite effective I thought, if anything a little distractingly over-produced with aerialists, puppets, stiltwalkers and the like, a splendid chorus, effective costumes and lighting, all rather in the manner of classical Indian theater, in my understanding…</em>Charles Sherehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10480432901356490235noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13593902.post-65822642606998916432011-12-11T23:21:13.680-08:002011-12-11T23:21:13.680-08:00I haven't been to any of the "Live Broadc...I haven't been to any of the "Live Broadcasts" because I've been afraid of the sound, and now you tell me that I need to be afraid of the camerawork too.<br /><br />The "Satyagraha" you saw was probably the same one I attended back in the early 1980s at the San Francisco Opera. I remember it as some kind of touring production during the summer that was being presented under the auspices of the SF Opera, or something like that. It featured the original Gandhi from the CBS Recording, Douglas Perry, who was something special, but otherwise the production was pretty simpleminded.Civic Centerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12362422142667230626noreply@blogger.com