THE METROPOLITAN OPERA GOES TO THE MOVIES

“Watching a well-directed high-definition digital telecast of an opera on a movie-house screen puts you within arm’s length of the singers. (One of the cameras is actually mounted on a remote-controlled dolly placed on the lip of the stage.) In a large house like the Met, all but a few seats are far from the stage, meaning that you have to use opera glasses to see the singers’ faces. Not so on screen…”