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In Reply to: RE: With the advent of DVD and Blu-Ray. . . posted by Chris from Lafayette on October 18, 2009 at 12:45:53
There exists in the memory of many opera goers, and there exist many taped versions, of "classically" staged and directed mainline operas. Ho hum. Surely, after seeing twenty productions of Aida, one wishes for SOME artistic vision?
Invariably, it is older, stodgy fellows that complain the loudest: how many reviewers are young? Same with audiences. I see nothing wrong with staging Hamlet in modern dress in the theater nor do I see a problem with Aida as a terrorist fable, or whatever is exciting, new, and fresh.
If one wishes to see minor artists at work, one will. All that is necessary is to constrict the art world to cast-iron boundaries.
I doubt a man as inventive as Puccini would frown at a reinvention of his art. One can only breath life so many times into Frankenstein's monster before the flesh falls apart.
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