Opera lovers in the tri-state area: TOSCA on PBS right now
Opera lovers in the tri-state area: TOSCA on PBS right now
#1Opera lovers in the tri-state area: TOSCA on PBS right now
Posted: 12/16/09 at 9:07pmThe Met's new production with Karita Mattila and Marcelo Alvarez is currently airing on Channel 13. Just began a few moments ago.
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
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#2re: Opera lovers in the tri-state area: TOSCA on PBS right now
Posted: 12/17/09 at 7:38amI was only able to catch a few minutes here and there, but it seems like a beautiful production- oddly similar to one I did two summers ago.
#2re: Opera lovers in the tri-state area: TOSCA on PBS right now
Posted: 12/17/09 at 12:38pm
They hated this in the Times and on the other board. Besides a drab set and some (at times VERY) questionable directing choices, I found it rather enjoyable. The whores at the beginning of Act II were bizarre and unnecessary, I thought and the final direction for Tosca wasvery poor. That being said, this was one of the best acted TOSCA productions I have seen and I adored the interviews in between.
Did anyone else catch that HUGE dig at Zefferrelli in the interview with the director of this production in between Act 2 and 3? When asked about Z's production he said "who?" in a very snide (and French) way. LOL.
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#3re: Opera lovers in the tri-state area: TOSCA on PBS right now
Posted: 12/17/09 at 12:51pmThat's because Franco had been so witheringly bitchy about the poor direction and design of this production.
#5re: Opera lovers in the tri-state area: TOSCA on PBS right now
Posted: 12/21/09 at 10:39pm
I loved this production, I'm so glad I finally got to see it.
Having seen the last one many, many times, I am so glad this took the place of the tired and overblown Zefferelli production.
What a nasty piece of work he became.
Updated On: 12/21/09 at 10:39 PM
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