Surfacing: an appreciation in 20 fragments
I struggle to articulate the notion of an erotics of art.
79 pieces since 2005 — in 17 roles, at 9 companies, most often at Metropolitan Opera.
4 pieces as Salome — stats above show all coverage for Leonie Rysanek.
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The focus in this 1974 performance of Salome from Orange is (mostly) on the Herodes of Jon Vickers.
What better way to welcome Halloween than with that scariest of all operas, Salome, in a performance culled from one of Mike Richter‘s magnificent CD-ROMs?
The hallmark of Camp is the spirit of extravagance. Camp taste turns its back on the good-bad axis of ordinary aesthetic judgment. Camp doesn’t reverse things. It doesn’t argue that the good is bad, or the bad is good. What it does is to offer for art (and life) a different — a supplementary — […]
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