摘要
这些年来,最令我逗笑的演出评论之一,出自查尔斯·麦切纳(Charles Michener)之手。早在20世纪90年代末,任职《纽约观察报》(New York Observer)的他,是一位颠扑不破、钟爱抱怨的老派乐评家。他没有留意到大都会歌剧院为了迎合观众的需求,把非周末(即周一至周四)的演出场次由晚上8时开演提前了半个小时至7时30分,因此他错过了一部歌剧的第一幕演出。他在专栏里花了三分之一的篇幅控诉大都会歌剧院为迟到观众特设的“等候区”没有好的配套服务:座椅不舒适、视频屏幕的扩音糟糕之极,以及歌剧院员工对待迟到者的态度更加恶劣。
One of the funniest opera reviews I've ever read was back in the late 1990s when Charles Michener,then the crusty critic of the New York Observer,failed to notice that the Met had changed its weekday starting times from 8pm to 7:30.Easily a third of Michener's column that week was devoted to the Metropolitan Opera's uncomfortable waiting room,the bad speakers on the video screen and the generally shabby treatment the company allotted its latecomers.
出处
《歌剧》
2023年第4期68-77,共10页
Opera
