The Opera House - film documentary about the Met Opera

Just back from seeing this at the Barbican Cinema (it is also showing at some Picturehouses and Curzons).  Its focus is the decision to move the Met from its 19th century built home in downtown Manhattan to the planned Lincoln Center.  There is much about the wrangles among architects and planners but also much about the first production - Samuel Barber's Anthony and Cleopatra directed by Franco Zeffirelli.  There are union troubles, a recalcitrant revolve and a pyramid that refuses to do what it is meant to. The 'talking heads' in the documentary are superb - biographers of the architects, the once young who were cleared from the site of the new opera house by slum clearance, people who have worked at the opera house quite literally man and boy.  And over all of this, causing the cinema audience to laugh out loud on more than one occasion, is the magnificent, charismatic Leontyne Price - now in her 90s but still able to carry a tune and tell a great story.  Would recommend anyone to see this, but if you love opera then you'll love it even more.  Hopefully it will get a TV outing at some point - can imagine it in something like the Storyville strand on BBC4.