[Magdalen] Smaller but not Forgotten.

[Joseph Cirou]

I think that was the last time I saw the Met. I attended a performance there in the early 80's. I forgot which opera, it was just the change to see the Met. It must have been standard repertoire; because I would have remembered if I had seen something special beyond the Met itself. The Met on tour was my first professional opera experience. My mother took me to Aida in the mid 50's and just before that we went to an amateur performance of Carmen in a local high school auditorium. Not too long (a few years) after that I saw Andrea Chenier at the Baths of Caracalla in 1957

Joe

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>Northrup Auditoium was/is a large theater type space that was
>the center for much of the artistic activity in the Twin Cities of  
>Minnesota.
>For example, it was the home of the Minnesota (earlier: Minneapolis)
>Symphony Orchestra and the location of New York's Metropolitan Opera
>Tour for an annual week in May.
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>It was enormous (4,800+) and acoustically dead.
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>Minnesota tended to go for gigantism.  The downtown movie  palace,
>The Minnesota Theater, was even larger before it suffered the  wrecking
>ball in the 1960's.
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>In any case, Northrup has been reimagined to the tune of $88 million,
>and cut into a main theater and two smaller stages.  The main  theater
>now seats 2,800, and seems to have corrected the acoustical problems.
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>I do not know the fate of the Aeolian-Skinner pipe organ of some 97  ranks.
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>In any case, the basics are still there for another generation, and  not
>razed and hauled off to some land-fill TBTG.
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>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northrop_Auditorium
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>David S.
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