It’s hardly news to regular readers that I watch a lot of opera recordings on DVD and Blu-ray. Until recently though I rarely watched streaming video off the internet as I’m not very keen about sitting in front of a computer for hours. I do enough of that at work! However, it was time to replace our aging TV with something more modern so I used it as an excuse to do some other upgrades (as well as decommissioning the VHS and cassette tape players which haven’t been used for at least 5 years). Basically i hooked up Apple TV to the new TV and the home theatre sound system allowing me to stream anything from the lemur’s Macbook Air and be able to watch it on a large screen TV with 6.1 channel surround sound. A lot of the stuff out there is a bit naff qualitywise but there are some gems. Courtesy of another opera blogger who doesn’t want his bootleg publicising activities publicised I was able to view an extremely high quality feed of the Bregenz 2013 Die Zauberflõte which looked and sounded fantastic. I’m now really looking forward to live streams from Glyndebourne and the Bayerische Staatsoper.
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Well, that’s certainly a teaser. Leaves all your readers hungry.
Here’s the url for the Bregenz Flute
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDu8RiZVteU
Thanks very much! What a marvelous staging. Great fun to watch. I didn’t know that Youtube had full operas.
Richard
There are whole operas on Youtube but few of them are such high quality recordings and they tend to get “pulled” quite quickly. It is a good production isn’t it?
It certainly is a fine production and the effects displayed some real imagination. Makes one wonder why other productions so frequently display so little imagination. Hope it comes out on Blu-Ray with subtitles.
I’ve seen some pretty imaginative Flutes. I really like Pierre Audi’s Salzburg one. I’ve seen some awfully dull ones though!
I didn’t really miss the subtitles. I guess Flute is one work I know well enough not to need them.
I just connected a HDMI cable from my PC to my TV and was able to watch it on the big screen with no problem. I was surprised because I’m not on a very fast internet connection – 1.5 megabits over fixed wireless. Many videos start and stop. This one streamed beautifully.
I find operacat.com is pretty handy for listing existing + upcoming opera streams. And I subscribe to Medici.
Thanks for the tip