tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post4965676016288340291..comments2024-03-26T15:57:13.443+00:00Comments on On An Overgrown Path: Stravinsky and Walton are opera's poster boysUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-4234418302681376242008-03-20T18:31:00.000+00:002008-03-20T18:31:00.000+00:00I think a whole evening of Schoenberg might scare ...<I>I think a whole evening of Schoenberg might scare quite a few people off.</I><BR/><BR/>Well, then "Bravo!" to the Oper Leipzig, who have a new productions of the Schoenberg trilogy opening up on April 5th, under the title "Moderne Menschen". Damn not living in England or Europe and having access to cheap flight! :-) <BR/><BR/><I>I'd like to pair one of those Schoenbergs with a one-act Rossini... Best wishes, Frederic.</I><BR/><BR/>Yikes! What kind of thinking equates that with a good idea? I loathe Rossini, so I'd leave after the Schoenberg (which they would do first, in that cynical way of programmers, because they know if they program it after the interval, most people would leave), and I seriously doubt there's many Rossinians who would stick around for the Schoenberg. The pieces wouldn't "illuminate" each other or "provide up new contexts" or somesuch program notes writer-speak, it would be a mess. <BR/><BR/>I'm fully behind James Conlon's Recovered Voices project here in Los Angeles, but I wasn't happy that they broke up a natural double bill of Zemlinsky's one-act Wilde-based operas and subsituted the wonderfully lurid <I>Eine Florentinische Tragodie</I> (which was done in a semi-staged performance last year) with the utterly lightweight fluff of Ullman's <I>The Broken Jug</I>. <BR/><BR/>I wish someone would do Korngold's wonderful double-bill that was written as such, <I>Der Ring des Polykrates</I> and the wonderful <I>Violanta</I>.<BR/><BR/>At least the Royal Opera House is finally doing the UK staged premiere of <I>Die Tote Stadt</I> in 2008/09, with a very good cast and conductor, a mere 88 years after the premiere! Good cast for their next production of <I>Lulu</I> as well, *and* Rossini's <I>Matilde di Shabran</I>! :-)Henry Hollandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15871451112170286316noreply@blogger.com