If you've never wanted to run away and join the circus, if you have no interest in the arcane skills of tumblers, gimps, magicians, music hall and sideshow folk, if the art and craft and illusions of performance hold no appeal for you – then you probably won't like Funny Bones.
That is how the new audience for opera will be found, in a way simultaneously more artificial and more genuine than the seductive illusion of live performance in the HD series.
It's hard to say if the players captured what Mr. Boyles called "the sound of what Mendelssohn heard" — this is the ever-seductive illusion of period performance — but they put the piece across with energy.
Cinecasts from top international ballet companies have quickly become part of any enthusiast's calendar, but 3D is another issue altogether – because, while it can of course offer a better illusion of live performance, it has the capability to go much further as a genre in its own right.
In the mix, I can move voices around to give the illusion of a staged performance".
The producer emerged, apoplectic with rage, and attempted to give me a dressing-down for Pete having ruined the illusion of a live performance.
They're pre-recorded, accompanying a lavish holographic presentation that is projected on to an empty stage, giving the illusion of a theatrical performance.
In the past, no matter how contrived a pop record was, its goal was to present the illusion of a real performance.
Borrowing to consume perishables that don't raise the level of productive assets, he notes, raises G.D.P. in the short run and creates an illusion of positive economic performance.
Lots of misguided yuppies have sacrificed comfort and style for the illusion of reliability and performance.
