Word: godunov
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...three most frequently performed works in the Met's history (along with Aida and La Bohème). Everything and anything have been tried with it over the years. For all her moods and allure, Carmen is hardly a character susceptible, like Don Giovanni and Boris Godunov, to continuous re-exploration. English Cinema Director John Schlesinger (Sunday Bloody Sunday) once declined an offer to stage Carmen at Covent Garden because he felt that he could not improve on what the world had done with it already...
With Figaro, Davis also seems to be declaring a middle-ground approach to repertory between battered war-horses and uncompromising avant-garde works. He intends to balance what he considers the true classic tradition-operas like Otello, Boris Godunov and the Ring-with occasional forays into the new and experimental. Next July, he will offer Taverner, a harshly dissonant new opera about a 16th century composer. Written by one of England's leading young composers, Peter Maxwell Davies, the work will be produced by Film Director Ken Russell (The Devils, The Boy Friend...