BREAKING NEWS
Mar. 4th, 2008 03:58 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
polutropeI will be spending all of next year in New York. Seriously, classes are not important when confronted with next season.
My count is eleven that I want to see, at least four that I will die if I do not see.
(The eleven, if anyone wants to know, are Trovatore, Sonnambula, Damnation de Faust, Rondine [for some reason], Rusalka, Orfeo [if Stephanie Blythe actually sings Orfeo - otherwise, it has Danielle de Niese in it and who cares], Don Giovanni, Queen of Spades[Pikovaya Dama, if you know Russian], Cenerentola, Elisir d'amore, and Manon. Maybe Adriana Lecouvreur, but I don't like it all that much.)
Zimmerman describes her “play within a play” construct for La Sonnambula: “Nowhere in the world is reality rendered so tenuous, so provisional—so much like a dream—as in a rehearsal room where a company of singers, like dreamers in their sleep, move through an invisible world as though it were real. Our production will be staged in a rehearsal hall, during a rehearsal for a traditional production of La Sonnambula, where the opera gradually asserts its authority over all the players, the room, and time itself.”
This seems like the worst idea ever and I can see why Dessay has said that she will never work with Zimmerman ever again.
PS this is from our official confirmation.
My count is eleven that I want to see, at least four that I will die if I do not see.
(The eleven, if anyone wants to know, are Trovatore, Sonnambula, Damnation de Faust, Rondine [for some reason], Rusalka, Orfeo [if Stephanie Blythe actually sings Orfeo - otherwise, it has Danielle de Niese in it and who cares], Don Giovanni, Queen of Spades[Pikovaya Dama, if you know Russian], Cenerentola, Elisir d'amore, and Manon. Maybe Adriana Lecouvreur, but I don't like it all that much.)
Zimmerman describes her “play within a play” construct for La Sonnambula: “Nowhere in the world is reality rendered so tenuous, so provisional—so much like a dream—as in a rehearsal room where a company of singers, like dreamers in their sleep, move through an invisible world as though it were real. Our production will be staged in a rehearsal hall, during a rehearsal for a traditional production of La Sonnambula, where the opera gradually asserts its authority over all the players, the room, and time itself.”
This seems like the worst idea ever and I can see why Dessay has said that she will never work with Zimmerman ever again.
PS this is from our official confirmation.
