[Magdalen] It Trittico Opera Stuff.

[Scott Knitter]

On Thu, Oct 8, 2015 at 8:45 AM, Cantor03--- via Magdalen
<magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:
> I asked my friend his impressions at the intermission.  He allowed  that
> the music was grand, but the staging was "distracting."

I haven't been to the Met (closest I've been was the NYC Opera's Don
Giovanni many years ago), but the stagings would be at least half of
what I'd go there for!

Outside of the Met, I tend to prefer stagings that are a bit
nontraditional -- not the powdered wigs, big dresses, and hankies but
perhaps a modern idiom in which the immortal music is still the means
of communication. So yes, I do like Peter Sellars' La Nozze di Figaro,
Don Giovanni, and Theodora on DVD.

That said, the last opera I attended was Der Rosenkavalier in
traditional staging and costuming, at the Chicago Lyric Opera. It was
ravishing, even if very long. The continuous ocean waves of music are
what I'm there for. Richard Strauss didn't go in for stopping for a
recitative with harpsichord. :)


-- 
Scott R. Knitter
Edgewater, Chicago, Illinois USA