My advice? Download it swiftly, before it gets pulled.
*UPDATE* - My heaving mailbag reveals some of you don't know how to download a YouTube video.
The easiest way is to use a YouTube built-in downloading tool. First you need to download a piece of free software called Best Video Downloader. Then, go to the video's YouTube page by left-clicking on the title at the top of the video. You will see a 'Download' button just beneath the video. Click on your preferred file type (MP4 or FLV only) and that's it. It's a large file, so it will take a few minutes to download.
Conveniently, on a weekend the pullers-down don't usually patrol YouTube. Small window of opportunity, but big enough, thanks.
Posted by: Sheila | 09 December 2012 at 04:15 PM
Thank you so much. Somehow I knew that I could find the clip here. Dasch is just insane. Can't believe she just pulled through this complicating and unconventional interpretation of Lohengrin without one complete rehearsal. Harteros maybe a better singer but Dasch acts way better. With the cold weather and influenza being rampant in the backstage, I hope they don't get sick after spending the whole act in the water. Jonas...what can't he do? He can even sing Italian national anthem.
Posted by: virdiana | 09 December 2012 at 04:30 PM
Thank you, Intermezzo.
Posted by: Gi | 09 December 2012 at 07:22 PM
Wow. Proper curtain calls, Evelyn Herlitzius (I wonder if the deaf Peter Katona is watching this), and JK in a German role. Please Santa Claus (Kasper Holten) can we have all the above at The Royal Opera House please?
Posted by: Justin Chapman | 09 December 2012 at 08:07 PM
Is there a way to download it?
Posted by: Rahul | 09 December 2012 at 08:57 PM
Not to mention the divine Rene Pape is in it too.
Posted by: Lee Smith | 09 December 2012 at 10:35 PM
Justin - but please not curtain calls after every act, unless the characters are saying goodbye to the audience in Act II. And then not on first nights of new productions when they should stay to the end, as they will be going to the party anyway. But Herlitzius and Jonas in a German role - why isn't he the Parsifal in the new RO production? - are certainly missed at Covent Garden. Anyone know who the Kundry is? I'll be putting money on Denoke or, worse, Nadja Michael.
Posted by: Nikolaus Vogel | 09 December 2012 at 11:45 PM
It's Denoke. I think she'll be quite good, actually, but Simon O'Neill is no Jonas!
Posted by: John | 10 December 2012 at 12:10 AM
Chrome blocks Best Video Downloader. SIGH. Will install on Firefox.
Posted by: Lisa Hirsch | 10 December 2012 at 05:47 AM
Jonas Kaufmann is giving a recital in the small McCarter Theater in Princeton,New Jersey on January 17 2013. A few tickets are still available. http://www.mccarter.org
Posted by: opera99fan@hotmail.com | 10 December 2012 at 06:48 AM
McAfee blocked Best Video Downloader as deeply suspicious, but Firefox has an add on that works just fine if you choose the format as you directed.
Posted by: Sheila | 10 December 2012 at 02:43 PM
Thanks Intermezzo! Kaufmann continues to go from strength to strength. He is the real deal.
Posted by: Oroveso | 10 December 2012 at 05:29 PM
I'm quite partial to a curtain call after Act 1 of Walkure or Act 2 of Parsifal, but I get your point. I saw Boheme in Munich two years' ago and there were curtain calls after each act which seemed like overkill. My friend asked 'why do they keep coming out after each act?', and I didn't really have an answer. I've heard that it's Denoke - given her execrable Salome last season only a deaf person (obviously Peter Katona) would consider offering her Kundry. And why oh why has said Katona inflicted the underwhelming Simon O'Neil on us twice already (Meistersinger, Walkure) and now Parsifal? It beggars belief. Does Katona not know of any other tenors who sing this rep (and don't suggest Botha)? Are we EVER going to see JK in a German role????
Posted by: Justin Chapman | 10 December 2012 at 09:49 PM
That's the understatement of the year!
Posted by: Justin Chapman | 10 December 2012 at 09:50 PM
Bring on the curtain calls I say... can we also have the periwigged flunkies back instead of the Austen Reed escapees handing out the diva bouquets?
The ROH needs to recover its sense of occasion, fun and (whisper it quietly) sense of humour. Does it have a policy of discouraging curtain calls, except in certain older productions? There is one at the end of Act II of Otello in Moshinsky's production but I cannot think of many others. (Anyone?)
While we're on this subject, I think there is far too much curtainlessness around full stop. Instead we have those power cut (non-) curtains - all very unoperatic. Remember Wagner's stage directions at the end of Act I: 'the curtain falls quickly' [on Siegmund and Sieglinde's thrashing about]. In other words, exclamation mark mein kinder!
PS Can SJT opine on this please? Great writer and will be able to give us chapter and verse as usual.
PPS What about some occasional encores while we're at it?!
Posted by: DESR | 11 December 2012 at 05:15 PM
I downloaded Best Video but ended up with a whole host of other (unwanted) stuff which kept popping up, changes to my browser home page, etc. [Hence I guess why the block from McAfee.]
Thanks for the tip Intermezzo, but I went and uninstalled it all!
I will try Firefox.
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Intermezzo replies - Must be a Firefox 'thing' - Best Video Downloader and the Firefox add-on are essentially the same product (by Alactro).
Posted by: TheManOnTheBus (and in the Amphiteather!) | 11 December 2012 at 05:43 PM
I would imagine some knob at the Royal Opera House thought that the flunkies and 'operatic' curtain calls were, how can I put this, too elitist? Hence the dumbing down of curtain calls to be 'more like the theatre'. Milan, Munich and most of the other opera houses still have curtain calls, but I can't imagine the Royal Opera deciding to bring them back...
Posted by: Justin Chapman | 11 December 2012 at 09:17 PM
Harteros cancels tomorrow performance as well! We hope to see and hear on stage next Tuesday. Hoffentlich!
She was so good at the final dress rehearsal.
Ulisse
Posted by: Ulisse | 13 December 2012 at 01:54 PM
and I missed it.... megadeath.
Posted by: Dario | 16 December 2012 at 10:11 PM
*sigh* I remember the days when it was rare that something was taken down or not avalible in your area, now some of my favs get pulled a few HOURS after I find them, and as time goes on, less and less of my old favs are left, it's been bad since I was in 10th grade/high school soph (now a colledge soph), I still remember my outrage that my fav (and the most popular, the 1 with the glowing blue flowers) orchestral verison of Clair de Lune got the audio blocked by WMG. On another, Sir Hotness (Jonas) related note, I haven't watched the full recording of the opera yet, but I HAVE seen his full Lohengrin-themed interview, posted around Dec. 5th, which was AWESOME!
Posted by: SwanDuchess | 17 December 2012 at 06:52 PM