[Sans-Culotte]

I seldom attend live performances any more. My wife and I are opera fans, and used to be season ticket holders at Houston Grand Opera. We stopped going due to the fact that almost all new productions of operas are revisionist crap that are almost never set in the proper period or place. I prefer to watch Blu-rays or DVDs of better performances at home.

[wally_bert]

I went to the local philharmonic a few times and I don’t care to go back. The seats are too small and there isn’t a lot going on from a visual standpoint.

Besides I worked in public TV and sat through plenty of music productions. Digital media is for me. My wife likes to go. I pass.

[cuban leaf]

I prefer to watch Blu-rays or DVDs of better performances at home.

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I have an extensive collection of concerts on DVD and blue ray. A musician friend condescendingly asked me why, as a bass player, I never go to concerts (he was going to a stones concert for which he paid a very respectable three figures per ticket). I said my limit is $25 per ticket. Once they went over that, I just stopped seeing major acts.

But I have every Peter Gabriel, Genesis, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Who, Blacksmore’s Night, Berlin, Loreena McKennitt, George Straight and a miriad of other artists concerts and videos on Blue Ray and DVD.

And they all get me right on stage and sound a LOT better than the “colliseum” or many other live experiences.

[onedoug]

It is sad. I most vividly remember an electrifying live LA Phil performance of Sebelius 2nd Symphony, and another time, the deep, distant shadows down the nave of the church of Sant’Andrea della Valle from Puccini’s “Tosca”.

But it’s so damned expensive....