chris & the giant peach
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Post by chris & the giant peach on Feb 29, 2012 11:40:21 GMT
www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-17203541The Royal Opera House has shrugged off the boos and walk-outs that greeted a modern-dress staging of a Dvorak work.
The decision to set Rusalka - a version of The Little Mermaid - in a brothel populated by provocatively dressed prostitutes perplexed some critics.
"Girls run around in their scanties... and it's all quite nasty," wrote Rupert Christiansen in the Daily Telegraph.Sounds bloody fantastic if you ask me! 
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Post by Weyland on Feb 29, 2012 13:14:26 GMT
www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-17203541The Royal Opera House has shrugged off the boos and walk-outs that greeted a modern-dress staging of a Dvorak work.
The decision to set Rusalka - a version of The Little Mermaid - in a brothel populated by provocatively dressed prostitutes perplexed some critics.
"Girls run around in their scanties... and it's all quite nasty," wrote Rupert Christiansen in the Daily Telegraph.Sounds bloody fantastic if you ask me! I can see where they're coming from -- mermaids don't wear any scanties. |
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Post by jean on Feb 29, 2012 16:49:32 GMT
It's one for aubrey, obviously. I'm going to see Opera North's Giulio Cesare tomorrow. I am promised a Cleopatra who sits on the steps and seductively unrolls her stockings, flippantly tossing them aside...Handel’s protracted arias never sound strained, even when she’s been chained by one leg to the stage floor and a Tolomeo with golden fingernail extensions.So quite conventional, really. www.theartsdesk.com/opera/giulio-cesare-egitto-opera-north |
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Post by aubrey on Feb 29, 2012 18:03:51 GMT
The ballet music in Tannhäuser was apparently added at the insistence of the French, or rather Parisian, opera goers, who wanted to see young women wearing skimpy clothing: I think all operas in France or Paris had to have a ballet section, just for this reason.
I like the ballet bit in Tannhäuser, though:
(at 3.40: but the whole cartoon's good.)
(This is the only cartoon that can make me fill up.)
The bloke's got the name of it wrong, though.
One time, on a repeat of Rolf Harris's cartoon programme, some dolt cut the whole middle bit out of this cartoon (for timing purposes), thus making Elmer's rage at the end completely baffling. I wish people wouldn't do things like this.
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Post by Alpha Hooligan on Feb 29, 2012 18:16:01 GMT
Sold! ;D
AH
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Post by jean on Feb 29, 2012 18:21:03 GMT
French baroque dance costumes are very special. |
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Post by everso on Mar 1, 2012 18:06:06 GMT
I'd love to go to the Royal Opera House. It's looks fab.
Mr. Ev and I went to the Opera House in Sydney when we were in Oz (when our daughter was there for a year) and saw "The Mikado" by G & S. It was good, but a bit plain (the Opera House, not "The Mikado" which was excellent). Very concretey (is that a word? Probably not). Again, the Opera House, not "The Mikado"
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chris & the giant peach
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Post by chris & the giant peach on Mar 1, 2012 21:09:36 GMT
I'd love to go to the Royal Opera House. It's looks fab. Mr. Ev and I went to the Opera House in Sydney when we were in Oz (when our daughter was there for a year) and saw "The Mikado" by G & S. It was good, but a bit plain (the Opera House, not "The Mikado" which was excellent). Very concretey (is that a word? Probably not). Again, the Opera House, not "The Mikado" ...a marvellous opera I am sure.  |
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