http://blog.metoperafamily.org/metopera/2007/10/20/lights-costumes-orchestra/ Just another WordPress weblog Thu, 20 Nov 2008 13:47:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.3 http://blog.metoperafamily.org/metopera/2007/10/20/lights-costumes-orchestra/#comment-1031 Eva Sun, 13 Jan 2008 00:52:40 +0000 http://blog.metoperafamily.org/metopera/2007/10/20/lights-costumes-orchestra/#comment-1031 Today I've seen the new production of Macbeth in the movie theater. Maria Guleghina was superb as were all the other performers. I have a problem with the new production. I felt like I was watching scenes from a Sibirian Gulag. This is Shakespeare: 16th and 17th century. Please keep it that way. Do not put it in the 21st century. I don't want to see Verdi's opera with the old Jeeps on the stage and lady Macbeth running around in a slip or a flimsy nightgown. I grew up behind the Iron Curtain and seeing the Soviet looking soldiers on the stage of Metropolitan Opera, in a Shakespeare/Verdi Macbeth made me very uncomfortable. Please, do not succumb to the craziness of the European Opera Houses, making everything modern. There is a place for the new, modern opera and there is a place for the classics. Maestro Levine was excellent; music, voices superb. I wish Franco Zeffirelli made the stage production. I did not like the modern approach. Today I’ve seen the new production of Macbeth in the movie theater. Maria Guleghina was superb as were all the other performers. I have a problem with the new production. I felt like I was watching scenes from a Sibirian Gulag. This is Shakespeare: 16th and 17th century. Please keep it that way. Do not put it in the 21st century. I don’t want to see Verdi’s opera with the old Jeeps on the stage and lady Macbeth running around in a slip or a flimsy nightgown.
I grew up behind the Iron Curtain and seeing the Soviet looking soldiers on the stage of Metropolitan Opera, in a Shakespeare/Verdi Macbeth made me very uncomfortable. Please, do not succumb to the craziness of the European Opera Houses, making everything modern.
There is a place for the new, modern opera and there is a place for the classics.
Maestro Levine was excellent; music, voices superb. I wish Franco Zeffirelli made the stage production. I did not like the modern approach.

]]> http://blog.metoperafamily.org/metopera/2007/10/20/lights-costumes-orchestra/#comment-958 Nestor Thu, 25 Oct 2007 04:20:50 +0000 http://blog.metoperafamily.org/metopera/2007/10/20/lights-costumes-orchestra/#comment-958 I think this video blog is superb!. I liked the overall level of singing of this Macbeth, and Guleghina is definitely fantastic. I don´t like this kind of modernistic production, though. Regards, Nestor http://opera.meetup.com/46 I think this video blog is superb!. I liked the overall level of singing of this Macbeth, and Guleghina is definitely fantastic. I don´t like this kind of modernistic production, though.
Regards,
Nestor
http://opera.meetup.com/46

]]> http://blog.metoperafamily.org/metopera/2007/10/20/lights-costumes-orchestra/#comment-957 Seth Sat, 20 Oct 2007 12:55:10 +0000 http://blog.metoperafamily.org/metopera/2007/10/20/lights-costumes-orchestra/#comment-957 These video blogs are wonderful. Based on these snippets, I suspect that the new production of Macbeth will be quite controversial. But the musical side sounds great. I think Gulegina will be terrific!!! These video blogs are wonderful. Based on these snippets, I suspect that the new production of Macbeth will be quite controversial. But the musical side sounds great. I think Gulegina will be terrific!!!

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