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lennygoran
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by lennygoran » Thu May 15, 2014 8:13 pm
This is just too much to swallow.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/musi ... ce=refresh
" It will be set in a faded 1950’s Coney Island-inspired seaside town complete with pleasure garden, fairground rides, carney workers and an end-of-the-pier circus sideshow with freakish acts.
Cosí fan tutte opens at the London Coliseum on Friday 16 May for 12 performances."
Needless to say I won't be attending this one--especially after seeing live the excellent Cosi from the Met this season. How sad
Regards, Len
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by SONNET CLV » Thu May 15, 2014 9:22 pm
Perhaps they'll rename it Coney fan tutte!
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by jbuck919 » Thu May 15, 2014 9:26 pm
lennygoran wrote:This is just too much to swallow.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/musi ... ce=refresh
" It will be set in a faded 1950’s Coney Island-inspired seaside town complete with pleasure garden, fairground rides, carney workers and an end-of-the-pier circus sideshow with freakish acts.
Cosí fan tutte opens at the London Coliseum on Friday 16 May for 12 performances."
Needless to say I won't be attending this one--especially after seeing live the excellent Cosi from the Met this season. How sad
Regards, Len
Yes, but Len, GARDEN!
This sounds like a simple re-imagining of time and place, and you know you've enjoyed those before. I'll bet if it were Glimmerglass I could talk you into going.
Many years ago Joseph Papp reset Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing as a post-WW I happening and it was brilliant, one of my early hooked-on-Shakespeare experiences. The thing is, I saw it on TV, and IIRC after that broadcast people stopped buying tickets to the live production, making Papp vow never to do a TV version of a running play again.
There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach
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by barney » Thu May 15, 2014 10:49 pm
lennygoran wrote:This is just too much to swallow.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/musi ... ce=refresh
" It will be set in a faded 1950’s Coney Island-inspired seaside town complete with pleasure garden, fairground rides, carney workers and an end-of-the-pier circus sideshow with freakish acts.
Cosí fan tutte opens at the London Coliseum on Friday 16 May for 12 performances."
Needless to say I won't be attending this one--especially after seeing live the excellent Cosi from the Met this season. How sad
Regards, Len
Sounds like an imaginative tour de force, right up your street Len. Isn't it great to have directors with such original ideas, and willing to share them with you? Still sniggering at the Planet of the Apes production.
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lennygoran
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by lennygoran » Fri May 16, 2014 6:02 am
jbuck919 wrote:
Yes, but Len, GARDEN!
This sounds like a simple re-imagining of time and place, and you know you've enjoyed those before. I'll bet if it were Glimmerglass I could talk you into going.
You could be right! Regards, Len
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by johnshade » Wed May 28, 2014 6:59 pm
lennygoran wrote:This is just too much to swallow.
I have had to swallow so much of this eurotrash; today it's refreshing to see an original, intended staging.
The sun's a thief, and with her great attraction robs the vast sea, the moon's an arrant thief, and her pale fire she snatches from the sun... (Shakespeare)
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lennygoran
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by lennygoran » Wed May 28, 2014 7:08 pm
johnshade wrote:
I have had to swallow so much of this eurotrash; today it's refreshing to see an original, intended staging.
John so true--fortunately there are still some of those to be seen at the Met! Still one has to be careful or you can be burned. Regards, Len
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