A bit of dialogue on FB, with the producer: Elijah Moshinsky over the Zachary Woolfe Review posted above in the New York Times:
James Libby A fair assessment. Perhaps the only thing in which P.D. has failed in is conducting (a dismal affair which shouldn't be happening...). The Alexander Vingradov /Dmitry Belosselskiy duet was sumptuous, and alone worth attending for. The Mezzo Olesya Petrova whom I'd only seen in a bit part in Hoffmann, is a revelation here as Frederika!
Like · Reply · 17h · Edited Elijah Moshinsky Elijah Moshinsky Thanks for not mentioning the dreary production of mine.Which I did not rehearse . I just remember having to keep Adjusting it because I was told “Jimmy doesn’t like it”.What started out as an attempt to set it in the mental and physical territory of George Eliot’s Mill on the Floss,it ended up as a huge cumbersome generic Met set over which I had no real control. Even the action was,objected to, and as I was told that “We don’t do profiles at the Met”,I was forced to reblock the My ending during the interval on the first night. Never wanted to come back. 1 Like · Reply · 18m James Libby James Libby If it's any consolation, I found the production created the right atmosphere, refreshingly unobtrusive, allowing the artists to bring Verdi's work to us for a great evening of opera!
A bit of dialogue on FB, with the producer: Elijah Moshinsky over the Zachary Woolfe Review posted above in the New York Times:
ReplyDeleteJames Libby A fair assessment. Perhaps the only thing in which P.D. has failed in is conducting (a dismal affair which shouldn't be happening...). The Alexander Vingradov /Dmitry Belosselskiy duet was sumptuous, and alone worth attending for. The Mezzo Olesya Petrova whom I'd only seen in a bit part in Hoffmann, is a revelation here as Frederika!
Like · Reply · 17h · Edited
Elijah Moshinsky
Elijah Moshinsky Thanks for not mentioning the dreary production of mine.Which I did not rehearse .
I just remember having to keep
Adjusting it because I was told “Jimmy doesn’t like it”.What started out as an attempt to set it in the mental and physical territory of George Eliot’s Mill on the Floss,it ended up as a huge cumbersome generic Met set over which I had no real control.
Even the action was,objected to,
and as I was told that “We don’t do profiles at the Met”,I was forced to reblock the My ending during the interval on the first night.
Never wanted to come back.
1
Like · Reply · 18m
James Libby
James Libby If it's any consolation, I found the production created the right atmosphere, refreshingly unobtrusive, allowing the artists to bring Verdi's work to us for a great evening of opera!