The production sounds dreadful and puts me in mind of an "experimental" production of LuLu I saw done by the Houston Grand Opera back in the 70's. The stage and casting was minimalist, but big on the video projections, including long interludes of inserted music where we simply watched footage that was clearly supposed to relate somehow to the story but most of us couldn't figure out how. Worse, the videos were running at moments when important things were happening on stage, distracting and dividing your attention.
Some of HGO's experimental productions were marvelous; this one was not.
The Bayreuth Festival is something that is on my list of "things I'd like to do" one day, as is the Seattle Ring Festival (Seattle, alas may be more in my reach than Bayreuth). I'd love to hear Parsifal in the house it was written for.
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Date: 2004-08-07 10:05 pm (UTC)Some of HGO's experimental productions were marvelous; this one was not.
The Bayreuth Festival is something that is on my list of "things I'd like to do" one day, as is the Seattle Ring Festival (Seattle, alas may be more in my reach than Bayreuth). I'd love to hear Parsifal in the house it was written for.