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Post by Jan on Apr 6, 2018 14:37:13 GMT
Interesting fact gleaned from a German magazine: Germany has more than 80 state-subsidised opera houses and the total audience who attend opera is greater than that which attends theatre - one commonly-held belief in Germany is that theatre appeals to the intellect whereas opera appeals to the emotions and hence is more accessible and popular.
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Post by Someone in a tree on Apr 6, 2018 15:06:46 GMT
How fascinating
As much as I love opera I do not go as often as I used to, how many Boheme’s can one person take? Even with my favourites (Grimes, Klinghoffrer, Onegin etc) I would not want to see them endlessly. Plays appear more varied both in structure and presentation. Also the quality of of new plays is much stronger than new operas
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Post by viserys on Apr 6, 2018 18:48:12 GMT
At the opera the singing can at least partly make up for the ghastly Regietheater nonsense that’s omnipresent in Germany. I went to the local opera a long while after I had given up on plays here.But since Í‘ve discovered the wonderful Royal Opera de Wallonie in Liege (lovely building, great productions) I‘ve given up on opera in Germany as well.
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Post by oxfordsimon on Apr 6, 2018 23:28:30 GMT
Back in the days when I was a regular opera goer and would read Opera magazine, I was always struck by the number of houses that would regularly mount productions of My Fair Lady and West Side Story.
Is that still common in Germany?
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Post by viserys on Apr 7, 2018 9:30:37 GMT
yes, there‘s a handful of moneyspinners they dearly love to put on. Which flies into the face of them getting subsidies - those are meant to enable them to produce riskier and lesser known works. But musicals are still seen as inferior cash cows only used so they can sink all the money into their elitist Regietheater nonsense in drama and opera.
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