Posts Tagged ‘gesamtkunstwerk’
Friday, December 9th, 2011
By James Jorden After putting off for a week trying to make some sense of the horrific mess that is the Met’s new Faust, I’m finally just going to give up. There are some disasters that bear writing about as what you might call teaching opportunities: this season’s Don Giovanni, for example, as a cautionary […]
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Tags: english national opera, gesamtkunstwerk, houston grand opera, peter gelb, regie, robert lepage, the machine, the met, willy decker
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Friday, November 18th, 2011
By James Jorden Now that it has become apparent that Robert Lepage’s production of the Ring at the Met is a fiasco (too soon? Nah.)… well, anyway, since arguably the production is a dreary, unworkable, overpriced mess whose primary (perhaps only) virtue is that it actually hasn’t killed anyone yet, and since, let’s face it, […]
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Thursday, April 28th, 2011
It’s fortunate that Lulu at Den Norske Opera was the last stop on the “Regietournee,” because honestly anything after that would have amounted to an anticlimax. If there is a more brilliant director working in opera today than Stefan Herheim, well, maybe I shouldn’t see any of his work, because it might be too much […]
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Tags: alban berg, clowns, deconstruction, gesamtkunstwerk, lighting, lulu, metropolitan opera, realism, regie, stefan herheim, symbols, tennessee williams, the met, tone rows, vienna school, wooster group
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Tuesday, April 19th, 2011
By James Jorden The Staatsoper Stuttgart may be called the cradle of Regietheater, or at least a cradle of Regietheater. Strong theatrical values have characterized this company from the opening of the theater in 1912 (the world premiere of Ariadne auf Naxos, helmed by megaregisseur Max Reinhardt) through the 1950s, when Wieland Wagner’s frequent projects […]
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Tags: calixto bieito, gesamtkunstwerk, journey of a thousand miles, leather trench coats, parsifal, realism, regie, revivals, richard wagner, staatsoper stuttgart, symbols
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