Well, I am doing to display the shallow side of this opera lover. A very shallow side!
Even if the singing and conducting are substandard just getting a look at Ildar Abdrazakov will somewhat make up for it.
Plus, in the 1990 MET DVD the bare chested bodybuilder supers who were hired to accompany Assur and Arsace were hot as hell! Especially smoking were the two guys who were associated with Arsace who were bigger and more muscular than those of Assur thus foreshadowing which of the two would gain the throne at the conclusion of the piece. Let's hope that the person in charge of casting those supernumeraries this season had a "Queer eye for a hot guy" to paraphrase the title of a thread in the TV section of this forum!
A scene from 1990, if you look closely there are two hot guys kneeling on either side Marilyn Horne. They hand Arsace the sword that will be used to implement the revenge of the murdered King Nino in the final scene.