già la brunch è preparata
Oh, but this looks dire.
Not the fellow wallowing amidst the counterpane, obviously — he’s rather dishy if you like that type — but rather what he’s advertising. It’s a reworking of Don Giovanni called (La Cieca only wishes she were making this up) “The Gay Don,” to be previewed on July 4 at the London Pride festival in Trafalgar Square.
If MusicOMH can be trusted, the gaydaptation is “set in a 1980s club and with most of the Don’s conquests as men rather than women.”
…Zerlina becomes Zac a young James Dean type, Masetto becomes Marina the vampish fiancée of Zac who gets stood up, Don Ottavio is Olga the beautiful and imposing Russian immigrant who is besotted with Alan ( Donna Anna)…
Oh, you can write the rest for yourselves. La Cieca is going to sign off now as she imagines with a shudder the staging of “Là ci darem la mano.”
One thing I will give this project is that it’s truthfully billing itself as an adaptation. The score and libretto are being reworked to create a new take. Chances are that the end result will be forgettable and forgotten. But at least it’s not a director completely changing the opera while presenting it strictly as Mozart’s Don Giovanni.
I feel that great masterworks can inspire all kinds of updates and adaptations, so long as the production is truthful in presenting the piece as a new work — a piece inspired by Mozart’s masterpiece.
Yeah Kashania, good point, and one apparently missed by Lydia Language re Pina Bausch’s Bluebeard, clearly billed as a reworking and not the original.
I agree that, as long as it is clearly billed as an adaption based on the original Da Ponte libretto and with music by Mozart, something interesting or amusing may come out of it. And it probably can be done seriously, not as slapstick or a joke.
I’ve often thought that Boheme offers a perfect gay plot. Two guys meet and go to bed the same night? Been done before. One is promiscuos and the other one is jealous. A friend is a drag queen. They are artistic, poor and share apartments. It ends tragically. What else is new? Musetta’s and Mimi’s music could easily be adapted for tenor voices.
Doesn’t the muffin’s right leg seem oddly out of place in the pic?
Ed: I thought the same thing but then realised that we only see the right buttock. The leg is the left one!
Hmmm… I don’t think so kashania. If it were his left leg, we would see his left hip bending towards us.
Oh fuck! It’s someone else’s leg! Now I feel silly. The muffin is Gay Don, and he is eyeing his latest conquest’s feet. A larger frame would show Gay Don’s feet by the other man’s face, right? Since there are still sheets on the bed I’m guessing the night is young and the toes are still dry, my god those Brits go right for the fancy stuff don’t they.
More Gay gay gay gay gay stuff: http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/stage/opera/article6625256.ece
A week away from It. I tremble.
Finally, the Don Giovanni for Teddy Tahu Rhodes!
Left buttock, right leg.
Just ran a check on Bourne’s boys: they’re still at it, the swan is taking its time with its song and dance.
http://www.sadlerswells.com/show/Matthew-Bournes-Swan-Lake-09
But isn’t the angle wrong, Sanford? The muffin would need another leg joint for that to be his own right leg. I’m still thinking “Là ci darem il piede”.