You have to love the Metropolitan Opera in Prospect Park…well, if you do, the opera is performing in the park on Friday, June 20 at 8PM. (The rain date is June 21.) Soprano Angela Gheorghiu and tenor Roberto Alagna will perform a sort of “Opera’s Greatest Hits” show with the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus. Per the Met’s website:
In what is anticipated will be one of the Metropolitan Opera’s largest outdoor concerts in company history. Met Summer Concert: Live in Prospect Park has the potential of being attended by an audience of up to 150,000 people, who will be drawn from all five boroughs and the suburbs. The performance will be broadcast live on WQXR-FM (96.3 FM), and streamed live on the Met’s website, www.metopera.org…The married star couple of Gheorghiu and Alagna will sing popular arias and duets by Verdi, Puccini, Donizetti, Massenet, and others, conducted by Ion Marin. Gheorghiu and Alagna will perform on a larger than normal stage in Prospect Park’s Long Meadow baseball fields, surrounded by six jumbo video screens that will be strategically placed throughout the area to maximize the viewing experience.
It should be a busy night in the park.
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1 Cub // Jun 11, 2008 at 12:12 pm
Hmm. The park claims the “only” place they can put the incredibly loud circus is on the east side of the park, but whenever there is a symphony or opera they just plop that sucker in the ballfields on the west side.
Weird, isn’t it?
(yeah, it’s true that the symphony and opera need the space for the audience, but my point is the circus could easily go in the same place)
2 Anonymous // Jun 11, 2008 at 2:06 pm
don’t forget about the upcoming concert in July!
3 anon // Jun 11, 2008 at 2:07 pm
don’t forget about the upcoming NY Philharmonic concert in July!
4 Cub // Jun 12, 2008 at 12:58 am
Oh, wait. I forgot to mention – even better, the park says that after the new ice rink is built, they won’t have “any place” for the circus and it will have to find a new home.
It’s just soooo weird. Symphony? Space near Park Slope? Check. Opera? Space near Park Slope? Check.
Noisy circus? Space near Park Slope? Oops, not available!!
Soooo weird!