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A speaking commitment in McAlester kept me from seeing the Met broadcast of Berlioz's The Damnation of Faust on Saturday afternoon.
I'm told that I missed a tremendous show to a pretty full house.
The show was staged with 3-D projections in the place of sets and props.
Apparently, the technology was such that, for example, when Faust was riding a horse you could tell it wasn't a real horse on the stage, but you couldn't tell that he wasn't somehow actually controlling the galloping beast wherever it was.
With some ropes and a lot of imagination they were able to do some amazing sounding dramatic tricks during the war scenes.
The 3-D technology allowed the Met to go after a fully staged production of The Damnation for the first time in a century. It's got some scene changes and such that made it simply beyond the stagecraft standards until now. With that in mind, can you imaging what they could do with this technology to a production of The Ring?
I'm told, but haven't been able to confirm, that I might get a chance to see it in a rebroadcast in December. I hope the local theater takes heart from Saturday's big crowd and shows the rebroadcast. I'll be there, and, from what I hear, so will several of the people who were on Saturday.
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