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In its original incarnation at the Public Theater, 11 (gak!) years ago, I thought that Here Lies Love was brilliant: I saw it twice. The video was mostly used to intensify the way that the...
A favorite Donizetti performance from H_Badger · 5 minutes ago
Oh, the videos were not black and white they were in color and I remember 2 screens. They were filming the action that was actually on the stage at the time of the scene, but showing it from...
A favorite Donizetti performance from H_Badger · 8 minutes ago
The impoverished LA Opera managed to do it, even with separate videos for both Lucias.
A favorite Donizetti performance from H_Badger · 10 minutes ago
That’s a great ONP production that’s relatively easy to revive. It has been revived several times already and new casts seem to fit right in. As a matter of fact, it is programmed again for this...
A favorite Donizetti performance from H_Badger · 34 minutes ago
When you can sing it like that, you should!
A favorite Donizetti performance from Krunoslav · 48 minutes ago
Years ago La Cieca had a great review of Herheim's Rosenkavalier which described the effect of having a lot happening on stage:
A favorite Donizetti performance from H_Badger · 51 minutes ago
In the second clip, you have three singers listed but not Amartuvshin.
In theater on this date: The first show to open on this date was an 1862 production of Balfe/Bunn’s The Enchantress directed by Peter Richings and starring his wife, Caroline, E.L. Davenport (who...
It's a video about the 1900 'Exposition Universelle'.
I don't know what you posted but it's not available in Israel.
While we're discussing this... Some people dismiss video on stage outright, but I don't see why. A production is good or bad - or somewhere in between. So are the various elements that...
I haven't seen this Lucia. The clip above is edited in such a way that I can't tell how the black-and-white videos were displayed. From what I see, the staging looks quite...
A favorite Donizetti performance from H_Badger · 2 hours ago
clarify: the same criticisms. the voices are not similar
A favorite Donizetti performance from H_Badger · 2 hours ago
Oh, and of course (though not the busiest moments):
A favorite Donizetti performance from H_Badger · 2 hours ago
Enjoy: https://youtu.be/rU28r5SYkgI?si=5mgrTs6R569lGdgn From my blog: 'For the indoors scenes, the whole central section rotates...
A favorite Donizetti performance from H_Badger · 2 hours ago
I agree in some cases. And the production you bring up sounds very interesting I think it all sounds exciting . With this production of Lucia and for me it was most prevalent during the whole...
A favorite Donizetti performance from H_Badger · 2 hours ago
I heard Maqungo in the role in Berlin where he sang well but somewhat too modestly.
A favorite Donizetti performance from H_Badger · 2 hours ago
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 · 2 hours 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 · 2 hours ago
Following the successful launch of the new regular feature The Talk of the Town in January, the team at the box is inviting contributions for a new quarter of operatic potpourri.
Following the successful launch of the new regular feature The Talk of the Town in January, the team at the box is inviting contributions for a new quarter of operatic potpourri.
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