[left that other site]

I love this!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVURal-QYsA

[left that other site]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVURal-QYsA

Tonight’s Diversion.

[mylife]

I swear I hear shades of Pink Floyd in Tosca

[luvie]

Ahhh....how nice to think of something besides political wrangling!

[Intolerant in NJ]

A couple of years back PBS carried the latest Met production of "Prince Igor", a semi-surrealistic effort conducted by Gianandrea Noseda and mixing live stage action and music with black/white movies to tell the story of the Prince's battle with the Polovtsians to save the Russian people. The Dances were actually set in a field of 50 thousand red poppies (artificial of course) after the Prince had been captured - his captor is trying to persuade him to join forces with the Polovtsians and sends his dancers for entertainment, but Igor's guilt and desolation after the defeat of his army is distracting and the poppies suggest the whole sequence is some sort of beautiful drug-induced dream. The production doesn't seem to be available online, but this little snippet will give an idea of how the dances went - Met Polovtsian Dances. Sort of over the top, but I caught three or four replays during the week it was shown on various PBS outlets in the area just so I could dream along with the Prince again for awhile.....

[Menehune56]

Beautiful - thanks!