[1rudeboy]

I think the Met is performing Doctor Atomic this season. I saw it at the Lyric and it was dreadful. There was a giant atomic bomb hanging over the stage and I was considering whether to start cheering for it to drop.

In any case, why shouldn't people boo if they didn't like a production? It's tradition. And it's not like the back-benchers rushing the stage and assaulting the tenor for botching his job like they do in Italy.

[ml/nj]

Doctor Atomic ... I saw it at the Lyric and it was dreadful.

Are you guys in Chicago responsible for that too! I don't remember if the Met is doing DA this year but they did it last year. I listened to it for about four minutes.

I have a general rule not to attend any performance unless the composer has been dead for a hundred years or so. It's not that I deny the possibility of something good being composed today, but the filter of time has a way of getting rid of the DAs.

ML/NJ