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Jun 30, 2022 19:51:18 GMT
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Post by samuelwhiskers on Jun 30, 2022 19:51:18 GMT
I do miss a good, proper set with rooms and staircases and furniture. Last year’s Blithe Spirit wasn’t that great but ooh it had a lovely set. I can forgive a lot if there’s a lovely set.
Robert Icke: revolutionising British theatre or what you’d get if you bought Ivo van Hove on Wish? Don’t know but quite liked the wind tunnel effect in Oresteia.
I don’t go to the opera much and hardly ever outside of London but whenever I do it’s always… interesting? I saw a wonderfully bonkers Merry Widow in Stockholm where the widow was a famed soprano and the three men courting her the artistic directors of three leading Scandinavian opera houses, and at one point a character who was supposed to be a British “enfant terrible” director directed a play within the opera that was literally that terrible NT Macbeth with all the black rubbish sacks. Didn’t understand a thing but great fun! Though it opened with Brunnhilde greeting the sun so I spent the first 15 mins panicking that I was in the wrong opera house.
Paris Opera Les Troyens but set in a mental institute with a key aria performed while the leads were playing ping pong was a low light.
Had never heard of Regietheater before (so thank you for contributing to my theatre education!) but googling it brings up this delightfully bitchy article
www.city-journal.org/html/abduction-opera-13034.html
Robert Icke: revolutionising British theatre or what you’d get if you bought Ivo van Hove on Wish? Don’t know but quite liked the wind tunnel effect in Oresteia.
I don’t go to the opera much and hardly ever outside of London but whenever I do it’s always… interesting? I saw a wonderfully bonkers Merry Widow in Stockholm where the widow was a famed soprano and the three men courting her the artistic directors of three leading Scandinavian opera houses, and at one point a character who was supposed to be a British “enfant terrible” director directed a play within the opera that was literally that terrible NT Macbeth with all the black rubbish sacks. Didn’t understand a thing but great fun! Though it opened with Brunnhilde greeting the sun so I spent the first 15 mins panicking that I was in the wrong opera house.
Paris Opera Les Troyens but set in a mental institute with a key aria performed while the leads were playing ping pong was a low light.
Had never heard of Regietheater before (so thank you for contributing to my theatre education!) but googling it brings up this delightfully bitchy article
www.city-journal.org/html/abduction-opera-13034.html
