Posts Tagged ‘revivals’
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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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, February 4th, 2011
By James Jorden It’s not hard to guess why Peter Gelb would choose to import a recreation of the original production of Nixon in China instead of devising a new staging from scratch. It would hardly be prudent to blow a million dollars on a six-performance run of a work unlikely to be revived any […]
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Tags: Chiang Ching, english national opera, franco zeffirelli, houston grand opera, lincoln center, Mark Morris, new york city opera, peter gelb, peter sellars, ping pong diplomacy, puccini, republic of china, revivals, the met
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Friday, November 19th, 2010
By James Jorden Revival. Strange word, and creepy, when you think about it. Something used to be alive, then it wasn’t and now (presumably) it is, again. But it’s that last step, the actual reviving that seems so often to elude the revival of an opera production.
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Tags: cecilia bartoli, joseph volpe, lesley koenig, lincoln center, metropolitan opera, mozart, pr, regie, revivals
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