Leslie Uyeda’s When the Sun Comes Out is being premiered by Vancouver’s Queer Arts Festival as “Canada’s first Lesbian opera” at the Roundhouse Community Center in Yaletown. I caught the second performance; there is one more tomorrow night.
A busy production may be very entertaining, even if it challenges you to keep one eye on the pot and the other up the chimney. I’m thinking, for example, of Rameau’s Les Paladins, staged by...
A favorite Donizetti performance from H_Badger · 8 minutes ago
From my reading of the Strauss-Hoffmannsthal correspondence, the FROSCH libretto started out to be one thing end ended up being something else entirely. Hoffmannsthal worked very slowly and Strauss...
This was really interesting. Thank you for your perspective.
A favorite Donizetti performance from H_Badger · 13 minutes ago
You are right it seems like every show I have seen on Broadway this season uses video. The best was the show Boop since it was in a cartoon land. And Sunset Blvd. used it very well.
A favorite Donizetti performance from H_Badger · 20 minutes ago
One thing I always wonder about: why did Hoffmansthal need the metaphor of the shadow for childlessness, when he already explicitly cites the Färberin's childlessness? Why have the thing...
How so? How does it help and not distract from the production.
A favorite Donizetti performance from H_Badger · 24 minutes ago
This is one of the many reasons I love the Claus Guth Frosch, which is set in a framing device of a Belle Epoque Viennese lady (the Kaiserin) being treated in a sanatorium for frigidity. She...
But the extraneity is key. Busy productions can be good.
According to OperaWire, Mr Maqungo was quite impressive, particularly his high notes.
I find that the more extraneous gimmicks are used in a staging, the more it detracts and distracts from the music.
A favorite Donizetti performance from H_Badger · 2 hours ago
Excellent discussion - thank you! December's Frau was my first and I've fallen in love with it. One of the best parts of it is the symbolism and archetypes which are so ripe for...
That may have been me. I thought it unlikely that the Met would devote the necessary time and resources to re-creating the pre-taped video sequences with new singers. A bit of a pity because a...
A favorite Donizetti performance from H_Badger · 2 hours ago
A favorite Donizetti performance from H_Badger · 3 hours ago
Just with LA Opera. I frankly found the production pretty patronizing and surface level. I adore things like the Castorf Ring and other productions that use videos heavily, but it all felt...
A favorite Donizetti performance from H_Badger · 3 hours ago
I have heard her numerous times for over a decade in a number of theaters both in America and Europe, and, each and every time, my impression has been "I don't think this is the right...
A favorite Donizetti performance from H_Badger · 3 hours ago
I guess they were a little ahead of the curve, with so many theater productions adding video elements this season. Was this a co-production? I can't imagine the Met would produce a staging...
A favorite Donizetti performance from H_Badger · 3 hours ago
I think the Met planned to bring it back this season or next with Oropesa/Bernheim, but that it got canned for whatever reason. I suspect they didn't anticipate high demand even with those...
A favorite Donizetti performance from H_Badger · 3 hours ago
I would love to hear her tackle the Nabucco aria and cabaletta.
A favorite Donizetti performance from H_Badger · 3 hours ago
IN history on this date: IN 69, Vitellius, commanding Rhine-based armies, defeated Roman emperor Otho in the First Battle of Bedriacum to take power over Rome. He appears as a character in...
A favorite Donizetti performance from H_Badger · 3 hours ago
I have a soft spot for the Loy production of FroSch (Salzburg) where the regie is set in the first recording of the opera after WW2, but after reading this I wonder if a more appropriate (and...
Leslie Uyeda’s When the Sun Comes Out is being premiered by Vancouver’s Queer Arts Festival as “Canada’s first Lesbian opera” at the Roundhouse Community Center in Yaletown. I caught the second performance; there is one more tomorrow night.
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