There's a ghostly quality to this video, owing to its subliminal soundtrack and dreamlike pacing. The feeling of being in that house can be recreated only by memory, which this beautiful reminiscence helps to reawaken. An eerie, deeply touching experience.
i love stuff like this..shows me my roots...i came to the met at lincoln center and maintained a parterre box seat until 2008 after which i went slightly broke...no top hat and tails but a nice black great coat and a fancy black suit with black bow tie and turned up collar...back then seems they dolled up in grand tier and on up. i miss all that...grandpa never liked the opera but sure liked his whiskey and waters at the grand tier bar...he used to pay in advance for his drinks so at intermission he just pardon me d up to the bar when everyone else just stood in line.
Such sweet memories! I can truly visualize grandpa going straight to his drinks in front of the envy patrons standing in line. On a side note, I still doll up for the MET. Every time. If not there....where else...? Have you been back recently!
The razing of this magnificent opera house (and the beautiful movie palaces coast to coast) is an unalloyed tragedy!! Thank goodness Grand Central and Carnegie survived, thanks to caring and able to help souls like Jacquie Kennedy Onasis and Isaac Stern! Shame on our society for not treasuring these magnificent structures.
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There's a ghostly quality to this video, owing to its subliminal soundtrack and dreamlike pacing. The feeling of being in that house can be recreated only by memory, which this beautiful reminiscence helps to reawaken. An eerie, deeply touching experience.
i love stuff like this..shows me my roots...i came to the met at lincoln center and maintained a parterre box seat until 2008 after which i went slightly broke...no top hat and tails but a nice black great coat and a fancy black suit with black bow tie and turned up collar...back then seems they dolled up in grand tier and on up. i miss all that...grandpa never liked the opera but sure liked his whiskey and waters at the grand tier bar...he used to pay in advance for his drinks so at intermission he just pardon me d up to the bar when everyone else just stood in line.
Such sweet memories! I can truly visualize grandpa going straight to his drinks in front of the envy patrons standing in line. On a side note, I still doll up for the MET. Every time. If not there....where else...? Have you been back recently!
More Valkyries outside the Met than inside.:D - Greetings, Heinz
thx for posting!!!! I love the met, old and new....thank u Wallace Harrison and Rudolf bing
The razing of this magnificent opera house (and the beautiful movie palaces coast to coast) is an unalloyed tragedy!! Thank goodness Grand Central and Carnegie survived, thanks to caring and able to help souls like Jacquie Kennedy Onasis and Isaac Stern! Shame on our society for not treasuring these magnificent structures.
What a pity that there is no sound. How wonderful it would be if we could see and hear these great artists .
Martinelli bows after his aria - this was routine.
My great grandpa was one of the builders.
This video is a strange little art film in of itself......
(the glimpse of Aida is eerily beautiful.)
Escaping the past is hard for me
knew a man who would go to the opera in tophat and tails on the subway. Said it was common
Shame its no longer here
indeed! criminal that it was torn down....
it's an ugly office buildingf now.
Earlier than 1938
O wie angstlich!? Pretty creepy music.
they're walking on the left, not the right side
It didn't look like a clown car.
I would hate to sit behind the dude wearing a top hat.
Charlie Chaplin