Carmen from the English National Opera - Video on demand

[Wendell_E]

Watch the whole of Sally Potter's exciting new production of Carmen for the English National Opera, on demand for 7 days from 6.30pm on Saturday 3 November 2007.

This is the first time that BBC Radio 3 has video streamed an opera, and the first time a UK opera house has offered a complete production online.

Carmen online is a co-production between ENO and BBC Radio 3, in association with Adventure Pictures and is part of the ENO Sky Arts Season. The production is directed by filmmaker Sally Potter (Orlando, The Tango Lesson), who has also directed the video streaming.

You have a choice of views: one filmed from the perspective of the audience in the auditorium at the London Coliseum, and the other from backstage.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/classical/carmen/

Currently, I'm listening to a 1961 broadcast of The Rake's Progress (Ingmar Berman's Swedish-language production), but I'm gonna try to catch the Carmen later.

[Mozart]

Nice!

But the quality isn't very good.

[Siedler]

Nice!

But the quality isn't very good.

It's bad compared to the Finnish equivalent of BBC which has recently started to put some tv programs to their webpage. 

[knight66]

Wendel, How did it go? The production got a savaging here and was said to be boring; something I would have thought difficult with Carmen.

Mike