Word: librettos
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...understand why people are dazzled by the hall's "curved walls, rolling stairways; turquoise reflecting pools topped by a detached, featherlike roof." Artistic quality is indeed high, and the acoustics are excellent. Each seat is equipped with a small screen allowing you to see the libretto in one of several languages. But surely, for the €325 million that the building cost, every seat should have a full view of the stage. That would certainly increase Valencia's chance of taking its place among the major opera houses of the world. Rosalind Miranda, Alcalalí, Spain...
...Eggleston ’07, who produced the show. Music Director Channing Yu ’93 and Stage Director Edward Eaton chose to remain faithful to the work’s original form, staging it with full orchestral accompaniment and keeping Hugo von Hofmannsthal’s libretto in German, albeit with English subtitles. The comic opera’s plot—full of surprise, deception, and intrigue—tells the story of the Marschallin Marie Therese, Princess von Werdenberg, and her lover Octavian. The opera begins when the Marschallin’s country cousin, the Baron...
...libretto, by Tan Dun and Chinese-American novelist Ha Jin, adheres to the contours of The Emperor's Shadow, but with a different ending: Jianli cuts out his own tongue, and the anthem he leaves to be sung is a slave song we heard at the beginning of Act 2. The writers have trouble marshalling the movie's dramatic pull; their lyrics don't put the personal conflicts across with the same clarity and intensity. Domingo, a trouper at 64, has the notes down but struggles with his enunciation. (Even though he's singing in English, we needed the subtitles...
...traced to The Dark Side of the Moon and even past that, to the band's early days on the psychedelic front lines. To fans, this continuity must be just as reassuring as the trendiness [Roger] Waters has grafted onto his lyrics, which are a kind of libretto for Me-decade narcissism. Says Tom Morrera, disc jockey at New York City's pacesetting WNEW-FM: 'The Floyd are not as spacy as they used to be. They're doing art for art's sake, and you don't have to be high to get it. They'll take...
...Generally, big opera houses and festivals tend to sterilize this opera, focusing on the jagged modernity of the score and the formality and inevitability of death in the libretto, while ignoring the tremendously subtle emotions that can be powerful, sad and even funny. Thankfully, DHO treats the audience to as much passion and humanity as Poulenc certainly intended...