Porn Style? Space and Time in Live Opera Videos

Abstract

In October 2008 a blog post reporting that the high-definition simulcast of Jürgen Flimm's Metropolitan Opera production of Strauss's Salome was not to show the protagonist's fully naked body at the end of the Dance of the Seven Veils elicited the following anonymous comment: We miss so much anyway, watching these HD broadcasts. The cameras frequently aren't showing what I would like to see. I would like always to see everything on the stage, please. My own eyes will follow and focus as required. Would that they had one camera angle only, fixed somewhere in the house to broadcast the production exactly as a live audience sees it. The fancy camera work (zooming, hovering, etc.) is sometimes visually interesting, but it detracts from the experience. The camera thinks for me and decides for me where my interests lay, and I don't appreciate that. So much is lost when a camera zooms in, when, really, a character needs to be seen and heard as part of the whole and not focused upon, porn style, in the most exciting moments.1

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