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promote other events, such as live HD broadPHOTO & STORY casts featuring the Los BY KAREN BOSSICK Angeles and Israeli Philharmonic and “The Nutcracker Ballet,� t’s 10 in the mornwhich will be broadcast ing but Carol at 7:30 p.m. Dec. 13. Scheifele-Holmes “We don’t put on fullhas already sided up blown operas here. So to the movie theatre we’re really blessed to counter to buy a tub of have this,� Meyer said. popcorn. “There are a lot of cities She’ll be spendin the United States ing the next three that don’t have this.� hours with that lovThe operas typically able scoundrel Don last about three hours Giovanni, she figures, long, including interso she’d better fortify mission—it takes that herself. long to sing a story, said Holmes is one of Meyer. One lasted nearseveral dozen Sun Vally six hours--a far cry ley-area residents who from typical movie fare spend Saturday mornlike the swashbuckling ings watching opera “Puss n’ Boots,� which on the big screen at last about one hour and Big Wood 4 Cinemas 37 minutes. in Hailey. Because of that, Sun Some, like Holmes, Valley Opera arranges have watched live for the Golden Elk to performances at the cater box lunches. “But Metropolitan Opera in what stands out to me New York. But they’re is how fast the time quite content to view it passes—it passes in the on the movie screen. blink of an eye,� said “I had a subscripMeyer. tion to the Met when The Met is transmitI lived in New York. ted around the world And I’d sit there and in 54 countries and is find myself thinking even transmitted into about how bad the schools through a “Live scenery that they’d Sun Valley Opera’s Executive Director Mary Jo Helmeke says The Met: Live in HD in Schools� program. gotten out of storage performances sound better than being live because you’re closer to the sound. An No one in the theater smelled. This is betearlier attempt to present opera on the big screen didn’t work because movie theaters leaves when the curtain ter because you don’t didn’t have HD, Dolby-surround screen and footage shot with multiple cameras, said goes down for intermissmell the scenery,� Opera Co-Founder Frank Meyer sion, choosing instead to said Susan Blair. watch workers behind “This is almost the scenes and interas good as being at views with the conducthe Met,� chimed in ing the emotions of the singers close-up. tor and stars. Holmes. “It’s a lot closer You couldn’t get as much impact live “Some women love men who know than New York, and you get the benefit of unless you’re on the fifth row—and not what they want to hear,� said Mariusz interviews with the stars at intermission. everyone can be on the fifth row. Kwiecien, explaining the enduring fasciFor people who love opera, it’s a won“And, with the cinematographic tricks nation with his character Don Giovanni derful gift—although I do have trouble and Hollywood lighting, it becomes more who will end up in a fiery hell before the choosing between it and skiing when the than an opera. The subtitles are easy to performance is over. “And men, well, they skiing gets good.� read. And it borders on being every bit as like it for the music.� The Met: Live in HD caught Sun Valley entertaining as a good movie.� Lemuel Reagan, a homeschooled Opera Co-Founder Frank Meyer’s attenSun Valley Opera worked with David student from Fairfield, says he has seen tion six years ago when he read a “Los Corwin, who owns the Metropolitan contemporary operas like “Les Miz� and Angeles Times� article that called it “the Theatre Corporation, donating funds to “Phantom of the Opera.� But he was fasnew art form.� help refurbish the Hailey theater with a cinated by the more traditional opera on “As much as I love live opera I had to special projector and satellite connection the movie screen. agree that it was a new art form,� said to bring The Met: Live in HD to the local “Just the way the words flow with the Meyer, who has viewed opera in Vienna, audience. Prague, Florence and other cities around continued, page 8 Opera members also promised to the world. “There’s something about see-
“It’ s a great way to learn about opera�.
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Thanksgiving Ski Racing Academy BY KAREN BOSSICK
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he rumor mill has been buzzing that Sun Valley is opening before its traditional Thanksgiving opening. Actually, it is and it isn’t. Eighty young ski racers will converge on Baldy Saturday through Thanksgiving Eve for Sun Valley’s first-ever Thankgiving Alpine Training Camp. The camp will give 40 local kids the opportunity to train at home rather than go elsewhere where conditions may be less than ideal. The other skiers will come from Bogus Basin, McCall, Kelly Canyon and Mt. Hood. “(Sun Valley General Manager) Tim Silva says Sun Valley is so isolated that we have no idea what other ski towns do,� Wiseman said. “In Colorado hundreds of racers take part in these camps in the weeks before Thanksgiving,’ he said. “We’re trying to say Sun Valley should be part of that because we have the facilities. And we have the ability to offer good snow that other ski areas don’t have because of Sun Valley’s snowmaking and grooming that a lot of ski areas don’t have. We’re starting small. But, if all goes well, there’s no reason we couldn’t expand it in the future.� The kids will train on Lower River Run and 42nd Street. SVSEF Alpine Program Director Ruben Macaya says training on flat terrain gives the students a chance to work on skills “That is where we always go during the first few days of the season so kids can get their skis under them and their feel back,� he said. Sun Valley’s Mountain Manager Peter Stearns is asking those who want to skin up Bald Mountain to use the Warm Springs side of the mountain during this time to minimize conflict with the racers. tws
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