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In Reply to: RE: See for yourself... posted by Ivan303 on June 22, 2015 at 16:10:47
I used to own that blu-ray too. It didn't stay around in my collection for very long. The staging on the Gergiev/Valencia album that I've kept was no improvement on the Pappano/ROH staging (i.e., they're both visually annoying IMHO), but as long as I was no longer going to play either one with the video turned on, I thought at least Gergiev conducted a more exciting performance. So, it was bye-bye Pappano. BTW, I used to have JEGgie on blu-ray too, which I jettisoned at the first opportunity. I DO try! ;-)
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"JEGgie" is John Eliot Gardiner, right? I remember from the last thread, when I incorrectly guessed Gordon Getty. I'm going to have to put together a glossary so I can understand your posts. Well worth it, of course.
. . . there aren't that many blu-rays of Les Troyens, so you could have used the process of elimination too! ;-)
It DOES have Antonacci as Cassandra and Susan Graham in the lead role. ;-)
Like the staging or no, The San Francisco production with Graham and Hymel plus Antonacci as Cassandra was wonderful. Runnicles in the pit was likely better that either Pappano or (perish the thought) even JEG (on a good night).
Had a chance to chat up director Leah Hausman a few days before opening. We attended a 'free talk' at the Conservatory of Music which included a panel of the four main stars plus Runnicles and Hausman. After the talk we happened to see Leah walking past Hayes Street Grill. We said 'hi', thanked her for her talk and mentioned how much we looked forward to the opening night performance. She seemed quite comfortable chatting with two aging opera buffs and shared a bit of her experiences fitting this huge production with chorus and dancers into our small opera house.
With all of the talk of the production, the very best performance of the evening is Dido/Susan Graham singing her long Act IV aria alone in front of the curtain.
IMNSHO, the reviewer from LA is just being a 'dick'.
Agree with Steven Winn below:
"The Greeks and Trojans had much in common with the age of Napoleon III. David McVicar and his team (Es Devlin, Moritz Junge, Wolgang Göbbel), brilliantly captiure the expansive, extravagant spirit of Berlioz's time. France at its imperial peak, colonizing Africa and Asia. Paris was being rebuilt on a grand scale. Berlioz wasn't doing history re-enactment but writing to stun Paris with its audacity. His orchestration isn't the music of antiquity, but the most advanced and adventurous of its time. Berlioz isn't doing history re-enactment, and his audiences interpreted Virgil through the filters of Claude and Poussin."
Great stuff!
Europe, birthplace of Lego?
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