I'm not usually posting on the opera section but I was wondering what other people think of the ROH Butterfly that is on at the moment. I saw it last week and loved it. It is the same production that I saw in Dress R a few years ago with an amazing soprano who I think was from South America. This sop is equally good I thought and I love the sparseness of the production and the the way they have let the music lead as it were. Sometimes in opera they do too much messing about on the stage.
0
-
This topic is locked
4 replies to this topic
#1
Lynette
-
- Global Moderators
-
- 4453 posts
Advanced Member
- Gender:Female
- Location:London
Posted 21 February 2007 - 02:09 AM
#2 Guest_Skylight_*
Guest_Skylight_*
-
- Guests
Posted 02 March 2007 - 05:51 PM
Is it the Leiser & Caurier production? If so I saw it a couple of seasons ago with Li Ping Zhang in the title role. I remember thinking she was superb but, although I'm generally a Puccini fan, Butterfly as an opera doesn't blow me away and I can't claim the production has stuck in my mind.
#3
curzon
-
- Full Members
-
- 819 posts
Advanced Member
- Gender:Male
- Location:High Wycombe
Posted 02 March 2007 - 09:54 PM
I think it's a good production It is telling without forcing another directorial gloss on it. The worst Butterfly I have ever seen was Robert Wilson's mind numbingly tedious re-telling. It looked exactly like every other Wilson production. god knows why he is still alowed to peddle his tired box of tricks - A true case of the Emperor's new clothes! 
Dreading the day when Calixto Bieito gets his hands on Butterfly.....
Sebastian
Dreading the day when Calixto Bieito gets his hands on Butterfly.....
Sebastian
#4
Reich
-
- Full Members
-
- 758 posts
Advanced Member
- Gender:Male
- Location:London
Posted 04 March 2007 - 05:04 PM
QUOTE(curzon @ Mar 2 2007, 09:54 PM) 
Dreading the day when Calixto Bieito gets his hands on Butterfly.....
Sebastian
Sebastian
He did it at the Komishe Opera in Berlin
http://www.komische-oper-berlin.de/spielpl...p;sid=$sid
The video looks errr interesting! nice to see Mickey Mouse having a featured part
I'm really not a fan of the opera the at all. The score is amazing but I find the plot boring beyond belief when it really shoudln't be. The David Nixon ballet version is the best way to see it. IMHO
Broadway has been very good to me. But then, I've been very good to broadway.
#5
curzon
-
- Full Members
-
- 819 posts
Advanced Member
- Gender:Male
- Location:High Wycombe
Posted 04 March 2007 - 08:43 PM
QUOTE(Reich @ Mar 4 2007, 05:04 PM)
He did it at the Komishe Opera in Berlin
http://www.komische-oper-berlin.de/spielpl...p;sid=$sid
The video looks errr interesting! nice to see Mickey Mouse having a featured part
Dear god! SO glad I didn't have to sit through that version.http://www.komische-oper-berlin.de/spielpl...p;sid=$sid
The video looks errr interesting! nice to see Mickey Mouse having a featured part
Sebastian
0 user(s) are reading this topic
0 members, 0 guests, 0 anonymous users
