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... is due to be given its first performances at Glyndebourne in August 2008. It's based on the novel by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (the one with the girl with the long red hair put away in a nunnery), will be conducted by Vladimir Jurowski and directed by Silviu Purcaret and, er, that's all I know.
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« Reply #1 on: 11:15:15, 19-09-2007 » |
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I know even less than you, George, except that I'll stick my neck out and say (1) Vladimir Jurowski is a pretty wonderful conductor (in fact, I'm hoping to hear his Berg Three Pieces + Klagende Lied tonight), (2) Peter Eötvös used to write sort of bad but interesting music, and now seems to write shiny but dreadful music, the only thing that intrigues me being his far from run-of-the-mill choice of texts (his Three Sisters did nothing for me but I wish I'd heard what he did with Angels in America - I really can't imagine) ...
Glyndebourne isn't on my regular paper round (i.e. I've never been, don't know how to get there etc.) but I'd be interested to hear this.
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« Reply #2 on: 11:21:21, 19-09-2007 » |
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Given that it's the first 'proper' opera G'bourne has commissioned since The Last Supper (not that that was a proper opera, come to think of it), I'll certainly be going, whoever has written it.
Tinners, go to Lewes and I'll pick you up! (Or, G'bourne organise free shuttle buses from and to Lewes train station during the festival.)
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Ruth Elleson
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« Reply #3 on: 11:28:20, 19-09-2007 » |
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Martle, wasn't "Flight" a Glyndebourne commission, and didn't it materialise AFTER The Last Supper?
t_i_n - For a new work, it should be easy to get tickets for Glyndebourne without signing up for any sort of mailing list membership. Ticket prices may well be lower than usual, too, or they may run a youth deal as they did when they last put on "Flight" (for which they had best available seats available for £30 to anybody under 30).
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George Garnett
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« Reply #4 on: 11:28:36, 19-09-2007 » |
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Tinners, go to Lewes and I'll pick you up! (Or, G'bourne organise free shuttle buses from and to Lewes train station during the festival.)
Well, a fiver for a return actually, but that's practically free compared with a cup of coffee at Glyndebourne  . I'm planning on going too, if only because it will probably be the easiest one to get into. The other one that is very tempting next year is L'Incoronazione di Poppea with Danielle de Niese - partly for, ahem, Lord Byron type reasons. |
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« Reply #5 on: 11:33:29, 19-09-2007 » |
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Tinners, go to Lewes and I'll pick you up! (Or, G'bourne organise free shuttle buses from and to Lewes train station during the festival.)
The buses, regrettably, aren't free. This year they cost £6 for the round trip  |
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martle
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« Reply #6 on: 11:35:21, 19-09-2007 » |
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Martle, wasn't "Flight" a Glyndebourne commission, and didn't it materialise AFTER The Last Supper?
Quite right, Ruth. The Last Supper (2000), Flight (2004). For some reason I thought Flight was a lot earlier... And as for the £6 for the bus - what a cheek!!  |
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« Reply #7 on: 11:37:42, 19-09-2007 » |
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I'm sure the original "Flight" WAS earlier - but perhaps it started off on the tour? It may, indeed, have been before "The Last Supper". In fact, thinking about it, I think Flight was in about '98 or '99...
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« Reply #8 on: 11:40:00, 19-09-2007 » |
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I know a couple of bits of gossip about this (though not really about the music). Someone I know was drafted in as a libretto-doctor, as the librettist (name forgotten, but I think he's Hungarian) was writing in English for the first time, and had done the whole thing in (possibly not-very-good) rhyming couplets. As far as I know the whole thing needed to be rewritten.
The other thing was the astonishing rate that Eotvos was going to be writing the score - my memory is shaky on this but I seem to remember that it was going to be in the region of 6-9 months - for, I think, a full-length opera!
(It took me 16 months to do a 1-hour chamber opera and that felt a bit quick!)
Everything I've heard of Eotvos has been, as tinners put it, shiny but dreadful. Apparently for Angels in America they had the orchestra playing live, but in a seperate room, and their performance was piped in to the theatre. I don't know why.
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« Reply #9 on: 11:41:57, 19-09-2007 » |
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Flight was 1998
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« Reply #10 on: 11:43:00, 19-09-2007 » |
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Yup, just checked the archive - Flight was first produced in 1998, then revived in 2005.
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« Reply #11 on: 11:43:22, 19-09-2007 » |
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The other one that is very tempting next year is L'Incoronazione di Poppea with Danielle de Nise - partly for, ahem, Lord Byron type reasons.
Being a new production, I'd say there's a good chance it will be the opera they choose to bring to the Proms - and then you'll have the chance to join the perv brigade on the front row get a prime standing spot for next to nothing. |
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« Reply #12 on: 11:44:14, 19-09-2007 » |
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I'm sure the original "Flight" WAS earlier - but perhaps it started off on the tour? It may, indeed, have been before "The Last Supper". In fact, thinking about it, I think Flight was in about '98 or '99...
The premiere of 'Flight' was indeed 1998. 'The Last Supper' was October 2000. 'Flight' circled for a bit and landed again in 2005. |
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« Reply #13 on: 11:47:40, 19-09-2007 » |
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The other thing was the astonishing rate that Eotvos was going to be writing the score - my memory is shaky on this but I seem to remember that it was going to be in the region of 6-9 months - for, I think, a full-length opera!
My little bit of insider knowledge here is that this was commissioned at least two years ago, probably a lot longer. No doubt Eotvos is a busy man, but... |
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« Reply #14 on: 11:53:24, 19-09-2007 » |
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The other one that is very tempting next year is L'Incoronazione di Poppea with Danielle de Nise - partly for, ahem, Lord Byron type reasons.
Being a new production, I'd say there's a good chance it will be the opera they choose to bring to the Proms - and then you'll have the chance to join the perv brigade on the front row get a prime standing spot for next to nothing. Having seen her in G'bourne's Julius Caesar, George, I may just join you.  |
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