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That old thing: remembering Covent Garden's revivals of historic 1950s productions
Gwyneth Jones as Elektra In 1988 I attended a performance of Richard Strauss' Elektra at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. I had seen the opera before in Welsh National Opera's Joachim Hertz production with Pauline Tinsley in the title role, but this performance was rather different.It had a strong cast, with Gwyneth Jones in the title role, Helga Dernesch as Klytemnestra and conducted by Gerd Albrecht, and in fact they opened up some of the traditional cuts in the opera. But unlike WNO's modish production Covent Garden's staging dated from 1953 and had not been seen since 1977. Directed originally by Rudolf Hartman the production featured sets by Isabel Lambert which were not unlike those at the opera's first performance. It could have been a damp squib, but thanks to an incandescent performance from Gwynneth Jones, it was riveting. I got the impression that it was very much […]
2012-02-02 15:08:00
Audience data explodes entertainment fallacy
[…] Mark Thompson, on whose watch one of the biggest cultural genocides of recent years has taken place, is on the way out. Let's hope his successor reads Peter Brook's The Shifting Point from which my opening quote is taken. Header graphic is Salvador Dali's Queen Salome (1937) and Dali designed Brook's 1949 Covent Garden Salome. A little later Dalí created an opera titled Être Dieu with a score by the avant-garde French composer Igor Wakhévitch. Read about that forgotten opera here. Also on Facebook and Twitter. Any copyrighted material on these pages is included as "fair use", for the purpose of study, review or critical analysis only, and will be removed at the request of copyright owner(s). Report broken links, missing images and errors to - overgrownpath at hotmail dot co dot uk
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