this is a job for wenarto
The Royal Opera House (you know, that place with the naked buskecutioner) is looking for “budding” filmmakers to produce a 40 second long version of Romeo and Juliet. The company asks for the finished featurettes to be uploaded to the Royal Opera’s YouTube site, which is just so Web 2.0 La Cieca can hardly stand it. [via The Guardian]
Yes, this is Izzy’s big break if he can learn
“O jour de deuil” in the next few days.
The Royal Opera House, with the highest prices in the world outside Salzburg, is desperate to appear “cool”, accessible and non-elitist. It’s all a smoke-screen to distract attention for charging people over $400 for the privelege of seeing Hei-Kyung Hong and a Korean Rodolfo in a 35-year-old production of La Boheme and Debbie Voigt and Bryn in Tosca.
Well as long as it alternates the geriatric Bohemes with performances like tonight’s Boccanegra with Furlanetto at his fabulous best, and the amazing Anja Harteros (justifying all the good things I’ve read about her and more – sounding not unlike Gheorghiu but with 300% more volume and dramatic commitment) I shall be quite happy for the $400 Boheme audiences to continue funding the good stuff…
Hagen, glad to hear its a goodun. I’m going in a couple of weeks. Love the production – saw it with Kiri in 1997, and some lovely Georgian soprano since then. Harteros really impressed me when she won Cardiff and this will be the first time i’ve heard her since. Really looking forward to it now.
What’s wrong with a Korean Rodolfo? I can do without Voigt, Terfel, and everything Puccini wrote, but last time I checked Korea was producing some excellent singers.
Cocky – was the lovely Georgian soprano Tamar Iveri? She does indeed seem to be a lovely singer, but not one of the big names.
That’s the one, Thackeray. I really enjoyed her. From memory, it was very much after Freni, although a good deal lighter. Seemed as if the instrument behaved in a sort of similar way though. Glancing at her website, she is doing a lot of work at the highest level – Desdemona for Muti at the Scala, Donna Anna at the Met, and all the major Teutonic houses.
Tamar Iveri is currently appearing…and doing a wonderful job in the current MET “Clemenza”, as Vitella…
She sounds great!
Im not an expert, but i found Tamar Iveri just serviceable as Marguerite in Houstons FAUST. Didnt think she was a terribly compelling singer…