From my perspective Opera is much better served on DVD than CD or SACD. It's an audio-VISUAL extraviganza. Hell, for me it was worth setting my system up as a home-theater just to experience opera. Now you can get two versions of the full Ring cycle on DVD, and each can be had for around $100. One's by The Met (they've got three cycles of that particular production coming up next year by the way), and the other is the centenial performance at Bayreuth. And both are in 5.1 format. Siegfried is on two disks on both productions.
Where's Opera on SACD???
Hi Everyone,
I've noticed that there's no Opera on SACD yet. Does anyone know why? It seems like a natural for the new format, because of the extended storage capacity, and because I think Opera lends itself to multi-channel quite naturally.
While on the subject of storage capacity, does anyone know the capacity of an SACD? Wouldn't it be great to be able to get "Siegfried" by Wagner on 1 disc instead of 4! (Wait... maybe THAT'S why it's not on SACD? Record companies couldn't really sell 1 disc for $65, whereas they can do that with 4 discs. Hmmm.)
Tfkaudio
I've noticed that there's no Opera on SACD yet. Does anyone know why? It seems like a natural for the new format, because of the extended storage capacity, and because I think Opera lends itself to multi-channel quite naturally.
While on the subject of storage capacity, does anyone know the capacity of an SACD? Wouldn't it be great to be able to get "Siegfried" by Wagner on 1 disc instead of 4! (Wait... maybe THAT'S why it's not on SACD? Record companies couldn't really sell 1 disc for $65, whereas they can do that with 4 discs. Hmmm.)
Tfkaudio