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« Reply #1 on: 11:50:11, 15-03-2008 » |
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That looks interesting enough for me to start speculatively looking into my diary.
We'll have started back by the time they both open but perhaps I'll be able to pop down for a weekend if they're showing on consecutive days.
Thanks for posting this Reiner, otherwise it may well have passed me by until a critical moment when i realised I wouldn't be able to attend (as with most things).
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« Reply #2 on: 12:08:27, 15-03-2008 » |
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Thanks from me too, RT. This has awoken me from my diary torpor: not just those two shows, but the ROH/Linbury Punch and The Minotaur as well, all bunched together! Better get the credit card oiled up...
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« Reply #3 on: 13:43:59, 15-03-2008 » |
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Golly, an articulate, informed piece in the Evening Standard. (Mind you I only read it when I see abandoned copies on the tube.)
I notice nobody has left any comments on the article online. Anyone here like to say anything there?
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« Reply #4 on: 13:49:04, 15-03-2008 » |
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(Mind you I only read it when I see abandoned copies on the tube.)
Good Heavens! Does that happen often? ["irony" smiley] But yes, it was a well-informed piece, wasn't it? I was pleasantly surprised. And not only that, it went against the back-bitingly anti-innovative tendency that dominates writing in the Evening Standard from its usual weary hacks. Praising worthwhile ventures is so much less fun than slashing them to ribbons these days. |
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« Reply #5 on: 16:03:48, 15-03-2008 » |
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the ROH/Linbury Punch That's only on on the 17, 19 and 20 inst., M, as I discovered last week when I was passing through Covent Garden and picked up a brochure from the Opera House. And I don't really fancy paying £18 for the cheapest seat, or £9.50 to stand. But I believe there's a Young Vic (a different production?) later in April/May?? Need to check this out myself. |
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« Reply #6 on: 16:07:01, 15-03-2008 » |
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the ROH/Linbury Punch But I believe there's a Young Vic (a different production?) later in April/May?? Need to check this out myself. As per http://www.eno.org/whats-on/whats-on.php?id=0666Would I enjoy it? |
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To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under heaven.
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« Reply #7 on: 16:17:20, 15-03-2008 » |
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Well, Don, there are those of us who think P&J (and especially its libretto) is one of the most original and powerful pieces of music theatre ever composed in this country. It is however, musically and dramatically, no tea party. Knowing what little I do of your tastes I would suggest that you might not enjoy it that much. I still think you should go though.
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« Reply #8 on: 16:18:37, 15-03-2008 » |
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It's the one where Britten and Pears left half way through the premiere, no?
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« Reply #10 on: 16:31:06, 15-03-2008 » |
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It is, musically and dramatically, no tea party. Knowing what little I do of your tastes I would suggest that you might not enjoy it that much. I still think you should go though.
I think Richard's probably right that the music wouldn't exactly appeal to you, Don, although I suspect you'd find the libretto quite fascinating. I'm not sure whether you 'should' go, but I'd be more than happy to hold your hand if you did (metaphorically speaking, of course  ). It probably wouldn't go down as a relaxing evening at the theatre, though. |
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« Reply #11 on: 16:31:37, 15-03-2008 » |
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Don, I actually think you'd 'get it'. (Note that's not the same as 'enjoy'.) It's remarkable as a piece of theatre, and you know about musical theatre, so I think you'd understand a little of where it's coming from. Pretty it ain't; although I actually find some of it very affecting (Judy's early aria for instance). The libretto, as RB says, is quite phenomenal - Auden said it was probably the best libretto of the C20th.
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« Reply #12 on: 16:55:55, 15-03-2008 » |
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I really don't understand why on earth somebody would make an opera based on Lost Highway.  |
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« Reply #13 on: 17:00:20, 15-03-2008 » |
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I really don't understand why on earth somebody would make an opera based on Lost Highway. Nor me. |
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« Reply #14 on: 17:32:01, 15-03-2008 » |
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Nor me - I love the film, but can't for the life of me imagine how it would translate to the stage, let alone an operatic version (so much of the effectiveness of the film is purely cinematic, visual, rather than textual). That's why I'm going to see it! (ticket booked for the 8th April) Oh, by the way t_i_n, the ENO version is £30 unless you're under 30, which you probably are. I'm not any more.  |
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