Opera
The qualities of the Met’s new pieces—literalness, signposting, pat plotlines, an impatience with the slightest ambiguity—are key tenets of second-screen television. They are also irreconcilable with good opera, in which text and music subvert one another and pieces permit manifold interpretations. In Don Giovanni, for example, Mozart quite
... See moreThrough the Opera Glass, Jeffrey Arlo Brown. Source.
Unlike a more classic European operatic takedown of capitalist America—like Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht’s brutal “Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny”— these productions seem committed to imitation rather than meaning. They never elevate their scattered details to the level of myth. The productions are a collection of curios, a dress-up that... See more
Micaela Baranello • Turn The Machine Inward
Thinking about Die Zauberflöte today. Source: https://hermetic.com/godwin/layers-of-meaning-in-the-magic-flute