tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post113386312630347368..comments2024-03-26T15:57:13.443+00:00Comments on On An Overgrown Path: Primetime TV for new operaUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-1134746703699583052005-12-16T15:25:00.000+00:002005-12-16T15:25:00.000+00:00Thanks, Henry, for pointing out that Judith Weir's...Thanks, Henry, for pointing out that Judith Weir's "A Night at the Chinese Opera" was also done by the Santa Fe Opera. After I posted I recalled that, like Blond Eckbert, it was also done there.<BR/><BR/>I have the NMC recording of the "Night at the Chinese Opera", with the Maoist-era Chinese photo on the cover, but I don't think I listened to it more than once. I'll have to try to listen to it again this weekend.Garth Trinklhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11084463787729969177noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-1134575401532949042005-12-14T15:50:00.000+00:002005-12-14T15:50:00.000+00:00Excellent post, Pliable. Thank you. I don't beli...Excellent post, Pliable. Thank you. I don't believe that one will again see made-for-television operas in America for at least another generation. (Menotti's Amahl and the Night Visitors was commissioned by U.S. television. It was well received, and repeatedly broadcast for several subsequent years.) And I don't know whether there are still UNESCO Prizes awarded for television operas -- probably there are E.U.Broadcasting Union Prizes for television operas.<BR/><BR/>Also, I believe that Ms. Weir taught at Harvard, a few years back, as well as at Princeton. (She was at Harvard, I believe, the year before Harrison Birtwistle was there.)<BR/><BR/>Ms. Weir's Blond Eckbert was well received at Santa Fe, I recall, in Alison Chitty's production.Garth Trinklhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11084463787729969177noreply@blogger.com