In Reply to: Big B and I (and our wives) are off to LA tomorrow. . . posted by Chris from Lafayette on May 24, 2012 at 15:49:31:
Complain all you want about so called "Eurotrash elements," but at least they're taking risks.
The biggest problem with the Met, best exemplified by the new Ring, is that they are completely scared to do anything but uber conventional productions. They try to do something different, such as with "Tosca," everyone revolts, and then these same people wonder why the new Ring is so painfully conventional and straightforward -- pretty much every critic and regular patron agrees it was a total wasted opportunity. If audiences didn't push the Met into being so risk adverse there would have been a much greater chance of getting something original and bold.
And it's also nicely coincidental that this post is about "Don Giovanni." This season's new "Don Giovanni" was so boringly standard that it doesn't make sense why they bothered to put together a new production -- do we really need yet another period production with a 100% literal interpretation of the libretto?
I rather have opera take risks and fail from time to time than keep doing the same thing over, and over again.
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Follow Ups
- RE: Big B and I (and our wives) are off to LA tomorrow. . . - Thornhill 18:13:25 05/24/12 (15)
- Here here, well said! Some Depends-wearer coins a term, "Eurotrash," and that - tinear 08:07:38 05/25/12 (3)
- RE: Here here, well said! Some Depends-wearer coins a term, "Eurotrash," and that - Chris from Lafayette 20:46:00 05/28/12 (2)
- I love the Valencia production. No, I do not think slavish imitation is enjoyable. Again, true - tinear 17:36:36 05/31/12 (1)
- The only slavish imitation going on is with these Eurotrash productions - Chris from Lafayette 23:27:07 05/31/12 (0)
- But there could be an infinite number of productions "with a 100% literal interpretation of the libretto" - Chris from Lafayette 21:15:26 05/24/12 (1)
- RE: But there could be an infinite number of productions "with a 100% literal interpretation of the libretto" - Thornhill 22:00:05 05/24/12 (0)
- On the other hand... - Brian Cheney 19:28:31 05/24/12 (8)
- RE: On the other hand... - Thornhill 20:06:06 05/24/12 (7)
- Not with you there.... - Brian Cheney 21:09:03 05/24/12 (6)
- RE: Not with you there.... - Thornhill 21:44:36 05/24/12 (5)
- Still not with you there.... - Brian Cheney 08:41:54 05/25/12 (4)
- Sounds like you should just buy a CD of some old stodgy performance and stay home. That will ensure you - tinear 17:25:34 05/27/12 (3)
- The variable is.... - Huh? 09:45:12 05/28/12 (0)
- No argument there! - Brian Cheney 19:07:14 05/27/12 (1)
- "Freebird!" nt - tinear 07:04:30 05/28/12 (0)