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Post by Deleted on Mar 21, 2016 23:23:34 GMT
Anyone see a screening of this tonight?
i must admit I wasn't terribly impressed. Love Bryn Terfel but for an eponymous piece, Boris felt a wee bit underused! As lovely as choruses sound, when they appear in operas I'm generally willing them to hurry up so we can get back to the real story. And my goodness, there was a lot of the chorus in this.
Fantastic closing scene, but I'm not sure it made up for the previous hour and 45 minutes where I was dangerously close to bored stiff.
Good to see Richard Jones is a keen recycler though - looked like some of that yellow piping from The Hairy Ape was getting used again...
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Post by Nicholas on Mar 22, 2016 0:18:22 GMT
Anyone see a screening of this tonight? i must admit I wasn't terribly impressed. Love Bryn Terfel but for an eponymous piece, Boris felt a wee bit underused! As lovely as choruses sound, when they appear in operas I'm generally willing them to hurry up so we can get back to the real story. And my goodness, there was a lot of the chorus in this. Fantastic closing scene, but I'm not sure it made up for the previous hour and 45 minutes where I was dangerously close to bored stiff. Good to see Richard Jones is a keen recycler though - looked like some of that yellow piping from The Hairy Ape was getting used again...
So, you're saying Boris Godunov... wasn't Boris Goodenough?
I'll get me coat.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 22, 2016 7:09:21 GMT
Ha ha - I always thought the o in Russian was short, but the number of times Katie Derham and co pronounced it close to 'good enough', I guess I was wrong! A bit of a giggle though.
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Post by Someone in a tree on Mar 22, 2016 11:19:23 GMT
BT great singer but not a great actor and Richard Jones bores me senseless
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Post by Someone in a tree on Mar 22, 2016 11:19:54 GMT
Ps I love the choral music though but as operas go it's not very exciting
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Post by Deleted on Mar 22, 2016 13:13:58 GMT
Ps I love the choral music though but as operas go it's not very exciting Agreed. And to be fair to Terfel - there's not really many places your acting can go over 2 hours, when your character is suffering from crippling guilt from the get-go. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 22, 2016 21:53:25 GMT
Anyone see a screening of this tonight? i must admit I wasn't terribly impressed. Love Bryn Terfel but for an eponymous piece, Boris felt a wee bit underused! As lovely as choruses sound, when they appear in operas I'm generally willing them to hurry up so we can get back to the real story. And my goodness, there was a lot of the chorus in this. Fantastic closing scene, but I'm not sure it made up for the previous hour and 45 minutes where I was dangerously close to bored stiff. Good to see Richard Jones is a keen recycler though - looked like some of that yellow piping from The Hairy Ape was getting used again... Saw it live last Friday Thought it was crappy cheap staging Kept thinking I could have seen the same director (and have seen) at the YV for £10 rather than £240 at the ROH And feeling sick It was awful value for money Richard Jones doesn't seem to realise the ticket prices differ for opera yet offers the same staging as his other work for this particular genre Sickening |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 22, 2016 22:43:38 GMT
Did you overhear how other members of the audience reacted to it, parsley? It seems to have had great reviews, and the response from the people at the screening I attended was overwhelmingly favourable. But I genuinely couldn't understand what they all saw in it!
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Post by Coated on Mar 23, 2016 1:12:35 GMT
I'm off to see it next week (though for a tiny fraction of £240) and can't wait - I like to see one proper russian opera per year. Russian operas are entirely bonkers in my estimation, mainly one person singing. Stopping. Next person singing. Louder. Most likely about guilt. Or misery. Maybe some mythical creature. And then there's the chorus of which I can't ever get enough, and the orchestra going wild. I finish night with vodka, and then I'm good for another year.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 23, 2016 13:11:10 GMT
You see I love Eugene Onegin, and I enjoyed The Queen of Spades. But this just didn't do it for me at all - either musically or story-wise. Maybe I'll have to stick to Tchaikovsky!
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Post by AddisonMizner on Apr 17, 2016 19:41:50 GMT
I'm gutted that I missed this in the cinema. I'm a huge fan of Bryn Terfel, and would probably go and hear him sing anything! I tried to find a suitable Encore screening near me, but didn't have any luck. Here's hoping for a DVD release!
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Post by Deleted on Apr 17, 2016 22:37:40 GMT
Annoyingly, they don't seem to be televising the Proms version either. (Possibly because of the recent ROH Live screening, I suppose.) Though it will be on the radio, of course.
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