Bring Your Cellphone to the Opera, Please

Not sure how I feel about this trend .....


The New York Times

March 27, 2009
Arts, Briefly

Bring Your Cellphone to the Opera, Please

Compiled by DAVE ITZKOFF

Even Mozart is being updated for the “American Idol” age. A coming production of his opera “Così Fan Tutte” will ask audience members to vote at intermission for which characters should be married in the final scene. The production, called “Così Fan Tutte: Defining Women,” will be performed by the Underworld Productions Opera Ensemble at Symphony Space on April 29 and 30, and it invites audience members to vote by sending text messages from their cellphones. Cast members will then perform the chosen ending. In a release the opera company notes the production will be set in modern-day Massachusetts, “where nuptials between any combination of three men and three women would be legal.”

Bring Your Cellphone to the Opera, Please

Not sure how I feel about this trend .....


The New York Times

March 27, 2009
Arts, Briefly

Bring Your Cellphone to the Opera, Please

Compiled by DAVE ITZKOFF

Even Mozart is being updated for the “American Idol” age. A coming production of his opera “Così Fan Tutte” will ask audience members to vote at intermission for which characters should be married in the final scene. The production, called “Così Fan Tutte: Defining Women,” will be performed by the Underworld Productions Opera Ensemble at Symphony Space on April 29 and 30, and it invites audience members to vote by sending text messages from their cellphones. Cast members will then perform the chosen ending. In a release the opera company notes the production will be set in modern-day Massachusetts, “where nuptials between any combination of three men and three women would be legal.”