Michael Tanner

The snobbery and sweaty brows of watching opera in the cinema

The pros and cons of the New York Met’s latest live opera relay, Massenet’s Werther

Tabac Rouge at Sadler's Wells Theatre [Photo: Richard Haughton] 
issue 05 April 2014

I remain puzzled that, so far as I know, no daily or weekly paper carries reviews of the New York Met opera relays (I’m not a denizen of the blogosphere, where they may well swarm). To judge from the number of cinemas that show these live relays, and from how crowded most of them are, clearly more people see opera in this form than in any other.

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