Both can also offer additional viewing material. Both formats control the focus of what you see, not true in the opera house. Videos and movies both offer close-up shots during the performance if you want to see a close-up in the opera house you need opera glasses or binoculars. They share certain advantages and disadvantages. Now, let’s clearly make the distinction between movie versions of operas and videos that are recordings or streamed showings of live operas being performed on a stage these are two very different formats that tend to get clumped together, especially when you are ordering DVDs from vendors. Acting must be more nuanced for the close-ups of film and videos. Acting on stage requires broad dramatic gestures to be seen throughout the opera house. Perhaps the biggest difference in producing staged and filmed/video versions is the acting demands on the singers. However, if you replace hearing opera live, local or at the Met, with only screen experiences, I’d insist that you are missing out on the best opera experiences, what the purists contend is true opera, hearing trained human voices without electronic transformation and experiencing the emotional impact those live voices carry, plus the deeply humanizing effect of live, shared arts experiences. Besides, who can afford to go to the Met in NYC more than a couple of times per year or wants to wait a month between operas for local company productions? And of course, movies and videos are cheaper than live performances. Also true for watching movie and video recordings of operas on my big screen TV while I have lunch or dinner and can hit the pause button for bathroom breaks or hit the rewind button when I realize I missed something. Seeing Met Opera “In Cinemas” broadcasts streaming on the big screen in a movie theater as I eat popcorn while wearing jeans and a sport shirt is fun.
Opera purists should stop reading at this point or take more anti-hypertensive medication. Watching movie versions of operas and videos of operas performed on stage can be both enjoyable entertainment and worthwhile arts experiences.
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