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Barbara Willis Sweete and Gary Halvorson, the first and principal director of the Met’s live transmissions, may possibly be in the process of commencing this fusion of opera and cinema, between restraint and cinematic virtuosity. Like the critic Christophe Huss, we may believe that they will have brought into the world a new art, “filmed opera,” one which goes beyond “mere capturing-restoring to impose a higher level discursive performance.”^[13]