Rather a pity that the Salzburg Traviata and the Luc Bondy Tosca couldn't have remained stranded in Europe as well! This is perhaps more telling about the core failure to maintain a culture of innovation and creativity within the house, from a general manager that has abandoned the idea of leadership.The first sentence of Emerson's 'Nature' written in 1836 beckons: 'Our Age is Retrospective.' This launched the American Renaissance. Buying shopworn productions from an already exhausted Europe will achieve nothing, apart from shrugs from cynical audiences who will lean in and whisper: Oh, I saw that last year in Aix...' I don't mean this posting as a statement of general negativity against European or modern productions, by the way. The François Girard Parsifal was delightful.
Rather a pity that the Salzburg Traviata and the Luc Bondy Tosca couldn't have remained stranded in Europe as well! This is perhaps more telling about the core failure to maintain a culture of innovation and creativity within the house, from a general manager that has abandoned the idea of leadership.The first sentence of Emerson's 'Nature' written in 1836 beckons: 'Our Age is Retrospective.' This launched the American Renaissance. Buying shopworn productions from an already exhausted Europe will achieve nothing, apart from shrugs from cynical audiences who will lean in and whisper: Oh, I saw that last year in Aix...' I don't mean this posting as a statement of general negativity against European or modern productions, by the way. The François Girard Parsifal was delightful.
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