Congrats to the cast, crew and esp the orchestra of tonight’s dress for Wagner’s Flying Dutchman at LA Opera. After all the buzz, we (the Tweet Seaters*) didn’t know what to expect from this very modernistic production (reminiscent of ‘Metropolis‘, Fritz Lang‘s iconic film from the 1920s), but truly enjoyed the result! The orchestral players got a rare but well-deserved onstage bow, and conductor James Conlon did a masterful job of leading the music — as one of our tweeting cohorts said, they were “like butter”, and smooth as silk as they sailed through the large and complex score.
