Posts Tagged ‘eurotrash’
Saturday, April 9th, 2011
By James Jorden I apologize for long period (two months!) of radio silence: it’s been a very busy spring season in New York, broken up by a two week vacation my traveling companion and I called the “Regietournee,” a sampling of some of the opera direction going on in Germany (and other northern European theaters.) […]
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Tags: barrie kosky, calixto bieito, doris doerrie, eurotrash, komische oper, otto schenk, regie, revivals, staatsoper unter den linden, symbols, the met
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Friday, January 28th, 2011
By James Jorden Instead of beating my brains out trying to make sense of the comings and goings in the final act of Simon Boccanegra at the Met (or am I just deluded to find it unlikely that convicted rebels should be marched to their execution through the Doge’s unguarded council chamber?), I thought this […]
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Tags: blogs, classical music, eurotrash, la traviata, marina poplavskaya, musical america, willy decker
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Friday, October 22nd, 2010
By James Jorden It’s the laziest of journalistic tropes to lead off with “this guy I know says…” but in this case the guy in question has provided me with what I consider a really handy peg for a first column on opera stage direction. Anyway, this guy—who’s in his 70s now, a retired opera […]
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Tags: classical music, enrico caruso, eurotrash, franco zeffirelli, leather trench coats, luc bondy, puccini, regie, standing room
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