Intermissions and iBooks
(c) Tris Hussey
Why aren’t more opera companies doing this?
Last week, the Vancouver Opera hosted its second Blogger Night at the Opera with Saturday’s production of Rigoletto. Five (prominent) local bloggers were invited to the Verdi tear-jerker, didn’t have to buy an extra seat for their computer, and live blogged from the lobby pre-show, at intermission, and at the after-party (after party!). Imagine what a New York, Chicago, or San Francisco-based company could do with their local bloggers…It’s so hipster…yet operatic….kind of (wait for it)…opster.
And you thought Canadians were only good for Tim Horton’s, Peak Freens, and milk in bags…
Oh, and here’s what the final products looked like:
“None of you are drinking wine – how can you properly blog the opera experience?” — Delicious Juice
“This is no night at the circus, despite the clowns who dotted the landscape as quiet observers, and it was great.” — Miss 604
“So, let’s review… circus-type equipment, check. Nudity? Check. Cage? Check.” — NetChick
“The thing that got me here to the opera was dating a performer. For others it might have seemed like the thing you do to because it’s the cultured thing to do. What you should know it’s about the music and the acting. It’s theatre. It’s theatre grander and more intense than a play or film. Consider that now most of us don’t speak the language being sung, the performers must be able make us know and feel what is going on.” — A View from the Isle
“Oh, blogging…Giggle and tweet.” — So Misguided
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