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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
. . . one can see whatever production one likes, Eurotrash or not, many, many times. One can see whatever movie one likes many, many times.
Zefirelli is not the only director who tries to honor the opera's stage directions - he's kind of the lightning rod of course, but there are many others.
I enjoy giving the younger directors a go too - but I don't enjoy crass self-regarding self-indulgence which cavalierly disrespects the explicit directions of the artistic creators. I ask again, what did audiences do before the rise of Eurotrash productions - did they all have infinitely refined digestion?
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.
Hmm. . . didn't Stravinsky say that the more boundaries and discipline he has, the more freedom he has? (I don't have the exact quote, but it's something like that.)
fds
Stravinsky was an immediate celebrity and every scandalous debut at the Ballets Russes increased his notoriety and stardom. Yes, there were tumultuous debuts, which turned into filled houses night after night after night. I would not call him a "victim of hatred."
"Life without music is a mistake" (Nietzsche)
I think by the end of his life, the critics were pretty much cowed by him.
But I think we've gotten off the track. I think that following the original stage directions still allows for plenty of innovation. You don't. I guess that's where we stand.
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