Great pity...I have to set up mine manually.

As I guessed, it was visually stunning. They don't seem to muck around with Ballet as much as Opera.

Falstaff from the Met tonight...I suspect best avoided.

I am getting to the stage where I will just burn the Audio to CD.

Regards to all,

Met Opera feeds (English subtitles)up and running on 0.8E on 11506V 13311 for tonight's Falstaff starting at 17.55 GMT.

I have it on 5W 11592h 25780 with French subtitles...


Thanks for that my wife loves the Nutcracker...

Don't forget Parsifal tonight 16:45 from the ROH...

Hopefully feed spotters will pick it up in time. If you plan to record it then I hope you have plenty of disk space

Feeds have been reported on:

0.8W 11471 V 13310

24.5W 11514 H 13311

It's looking like all the feeds have moved since last time...

I'm not sure where to on 5W so as I'm not there I'm going to get a nice long recording of a black screen

On 5w now at 11597 H 26620 and 11474 V 13310

Thanks, I'll hopefully not miss too much by the time I get in...

Bit of a result, it's recording it anyway... I'm guessing the box just works out the symbol rate itself if it doesn't match.

Sublime music, great singers, one of the world's great conductors, destroyed by a hideous ugly distracting production. I gave up after about half an hour.

It confirms my belief that Wagner is now best performed on the concert platform...Barenboim's Ring cycle at the Proms!

Nuff said,

Only five more hours to go! Where's the spirit that built an empire?

I've recorded it in three parts so I can watch it as a serial...

Having completed the marathon example of self flagellation, for that is how it felt, I can only say no matter how often or hard I try, Wagner operas are just not for me.

Up to the first interval it is to me just one slow, very slow, lament after another from the male characters.

After the first break it brightens up a bit and leading up to the second interval was actually quite enjoyable, giving false hope for the final third... But no, yet more endless laments from the male characters with only the last five minutes rescuing it a bit for me.

I had seen Parsifal before a long time ago and it left me cold then. This even more depressing production did nothing to change my opinion that it is just a deeply depressing opera despite the supposedly happy ending...

I love opera and love to promote it... but really I can't hand on heart say I've ever yet enjoyed a Wagner opera.

I think it is so dependent on the particular production...Parsifal was appalling, as indeed are most of the modern productions. Best performed on the Concert Platform, which does rather defeat the whole concept of the art form.

For me opera is total escapism, I love to get completely lost in the beautiful music and above all the arias and at the end I feel happy/uplifted even if it has an unfortunate ending for the characters...

For me none of the Wagner operas I've ever seen have that feel good factor, if they invoke any emotion at all it's generally one of deep gloom.

Sunday 29 December
Johann Strauss: Die Fledermaus
3Sat 10:10 CET, 190 min, operetta

Fledermaus without subtitles is always a problem because of the substantial dialogue. Nevertheless this was a fairly traditional production and Christian Gerhaher was wonderful as Eisenstein.

The 2012 Baden-Baden production is on 3Sat on Saturday at 7.15 GMT. Cast includes Rolando Villazon and Miah Persson

One of my favourite operas and Rolando Villazon always plays the role brilliantly...

Sunday 26 January

Opera Gala from the Art Nouveau-Festhalle Landau
Emmerich Smola Promotion Prize concert for the 2012
NDR 08:00 CET, 60 min, concert

Rameau: Les Paladins
Théâtre Musical de Paris, Châtelet 2004
3Sat 10:15 CET, 145 min, opera

Mozart: Les noces de Figaro
France, 2012
Arte 22:40 CET, 170 min, opera

For ballet fans the Bolshoi is performing 'Jewels' today at 3pm GMT. 5W 11598 H 14000

Today at 3pm(gmt)

Ballet:Jewels

5w

11591H
14000
2/3
S2/8PSK

Has anybody managed to get the sound?

I've found three downlinks...excellent pictures, but my receiver has failed to extract the audio.

I could not get the 5W transmission, but found it on 0.8W. sound and vision OK

What receiver were you using?

I found three downlinks 0.8W, 5.0W and 24.5W on Technomate 5402....excellent pictures but no sound. Never had this before.

Regards to all

My box is the Ross HD. I found the ballet transmission by blind scan on 0.8. 11475 V 14000 The audio was in AC3, do you have to alter your audio setting for this ?