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In Reply to: RE: Your continuing use of the term, "Eurotrash," would seem to place posted by tinear on October 18, 2009 at 11:47:15
But it is used quite extensively throughout the world to characterize the perversion of content and music into some personalized vision that has nothing to do with the original. Think Aida set in Nazi Germany or Stalin's Russia or some violent future clad in black leather, with Aida a whore rather than the daughter of a king who is a captive handmaiden.
There is plenty of opportunity for directors to be endlessly creative with more modern operas in contemporary settings. But I've seen enough Eurotrash Wagner Rings to determine that, just because someone calls himself a director and an artist does not make it so.
The notion that there is no artistic latitude in designing and directing the traditional great operas is just misguided. And the notion that, in order to be creative, one must destroy the original artistic context of a piece, is also incorrect.
Of course, if you like that sort of thing, there's plenty of it out there now. You are welcome to it. My note was for those who prefer a performance that demonstrates more fidelity to Verdi's artistic conception of the opera.
"Life without music is a mistake" (Nietzsche)
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