A Day at the Metropolitan Opera in New York with Sarah Willis

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9 жыл бұрын

Known as the "Met", The Metropolitan Opera House in New York is the largest opera house in the world and one of the most famous. Sarah goes backstage at a rehearsal of Massenet´s opera “Manon” and meets the General Manager of the Met, Peter Gelb.
Sarah Willis is a British-American French horn player. In 2001, she joined the Berlin Philharmonic, becoming the first female member of its brass section.
She was born in Maryland, USA and grew up in Tokyo, Boston, Moscow and London. At age 14 she started playing French horn and then attended the Royal College of Music Junior Department in London, UK. She studied full-time at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London, UK.
In 1991, she moved to Berlin, where she became Second Horn in the Berlin State Opera under Daniel Barenboim.
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@sambrinkley9120 7 жыл бұрын

"There's a viola in the way..." "They're always in the way!" HAHAHAHAH

@pearlglass 3 жыл бұрын

I love how us as musicians always point out to our instrument in this case she's like : the horns😊❤️✨😁

@laurencejames8108 Жыл бұрын

From Ho Chi Minh City at 1:16 AM Vietnam time, a fond appreciation for a great series

@PamelaJean2013 2 жыл бұрын

I always love seeing all the female horn players in the Met orchestra....what a change over the years!

@sailormann1 2 жыл бұрын

Awesome story. Thanks!

@ewtam24 Жыл бұрын

Thank you!

@ssoomee 6 жыл бұрын

lol my name is Sarah and I love the Met Opera it's my fave place in the world!!!!

@ovh992 4 жыл бұрын

Not sure the Metropolitan Opera House is the "most famous in the world." I would think that the opera houses standing 100 years before the Metropolitan was even built are more famous: The Royal Opera (London), the Paris Opera, La Scala. . . .

@indigo5601 4 жыл бұрын

naples.. one of the veteran most if not the longest existing (teatro san-carlo)

@raarnoldra 3 жыл бұрын

She is correct. Not only the most famous but arguably the most prestigious. It's been the case since World War II.

@EliF-ge5bu 2 жыл бұрын

@@raarnoldra It is the most prestigious and most famous in the world, and perhaps the best acoustics, but it is not that old. The current Met Opera House was opened in 1966. It replaced the old Metropolitan Opera House on Broadway and 39th street. The old Met was constructed in 1883.

@pega17pl 2 жыл бұрын

To Americans the World ends at US border. Beyond that nothing else exists. - Cheers, Heinz

@EliF-ge5bu 2 жыл бұрын

@@pega17pl what a moronic generalization.

@neto1571 2 жыл бұрын

Nice😁

@jrock2720 3 жыл бұрын

Sarah cracks a joke @3:37 and Peter Gelb is so focused he doesn't even acknowledge it. This guy is all business.

@broccolifireminecraft6367 7 жыл бұрын

8:39 who is in the middle of the screen?

@michaelbanks898 4 ай бұрын

That’s the tenor Vittorio Grigolo.

@dumbpunk1165 3 жыл бұрын

i'd love to attend some sort of performance here but i live in kansas lol

@danladi4073 3 жыл бұрын

You've got the Kansas City Lyric Opera. No need to go all the way to the Met when you can support your local house :-)

@EliF-ge5bu 2 жыл бұрын

@@danladi4073 It is great to patronize local art, but it is an entirely different experience seeing a performance at the Met.

@samueljaramillo4221 2 жыл бұрын

Its great to support your local opera company, but attending performances at the Met is like nothing else.

@markcombrinck-hertz3649 2 жыл бұрын

hi mark

@adeverger 4 жыл бұрын

David Geffen Hall.

@andrenewcomb3708 2 жыл бұрын

Someone got caught.

@andrenewcomb3708 7 жыл бұрын

Don't let that grab your tongue, Vito.

@RITardNation 5 жыл бұрын

That opera singer in the magenta gown tho...girl chill. I understand playing for the back row, and the excitement of singing at the Met, but damn.

@helloandbye1036 3 жыл бұрын

I hope this comment is ironic😂 She is playing a role😅

@juliankonhauser6046 10 ай бұрын

Lol thats Diana Damrau… she is the protagonist 😂😂

@bebetigre1252 6 жыл бұрын

the views are wrong.

@MrSkylark1 5 жыл бұрын

Alas, wobbles and ingolato shouting, have replaced the "Art" of Singing.

@tommytimp 4 жыл бұрын

No.

@artistsf1 4 жыл бұрын

i heard that ugliness at :45 in...and thanked my stars that i am old enough to have been there to hear CORELLI, TUCKER, GEDDA, MERRILL, MAC NEIL, TOZZI , SIEPI... TEBALDI, PRICE, NILSSON, MOFFO, VERRETT, BUMBRY, CABALLE, SUTHERLAND. this bleating grigolo does not have enough size or quality of voice to have done the smallest comprimario role in that era. what passes now is so low grade and debasing to what has gone before.

@tommytimp 4 жыл бұрын

@@artistsf1 Frenchfantastique =/= Italian grand, you pompous gasbag.

@samueljaramillo4221 2 жыл бұрын

Complain, complain,complain. Opera queens have nothing else to do but complain and criticize. How boring and sad your lives must be.