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Reiner Torheit
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« on: 03:05:26, 13-10-2007 »
Graham Vick's controversial TRAVIATA hits Birmingham this month...

http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/multimedia/archive/00218/Knowledge-TTE132201_218641a.jpg
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« Reply #1 on: 20:51:34, 14-10-2007 »
Ah!  Another "look at me, aren't I the clever one" ploy to be avoided.
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« Reply #2 on: 21:34:58, 14-10-2007 »
I agree the pic is highly controversial (which is why I included it)...   but GV is a wise and intensely intelligent man, and he rarely makes a monkey of himself.   If I lived a bit closer I would certainly have gone.  I would be fascinated to hear if anyone else (Ruth?) gets to this show?

It is, I believe, substantially his Arena di Verona production which he's succeeded in "borrowing" to stage in Brum.

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« Reply #3 on: 22:09:11, 14-10-2007 »
Well, I thought Vick's Glyndebourne production of Pelleas was bizarre, to say the least.  The whole cast looked so much more relaxed and confident performing it as a Prom, freed from the wilful eccentricities of Vick's staging.
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« Reply #4 on: 00:34:01, 15-10-2007 »
Reiner - I've currently got no plans to go to this.  It's on 25th/26th October - I'm seeing the ROH Ring Cycle from the 26th.

You've got me wondering whether I could somehow get there on the 25th, though.
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« Reply #5 on: 03:00:46, 15-10-2007 »
Please let us know if you DO go, Ruth?

Personally I would go a long way to see anything staged by Graham Vick, and the Birmingham company are something of a new kind of force in British Opera that must command our respect, whatever else we feel about their shows.  Anyone who can sell-out Monteverdi playing in a disused ice-rink has my undying admiration Smiley
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