tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2949086046279498177.post6697234685139203577..comments2023-12-27T09:38:56.562+01:00Comments on Opera Cake: Herheim's CriticsOpera Cakehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08940773671378765685noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2949086046279498177.post-92031532462961559842013-10-06T07:55:54.707+02:002013-10-06T07:55:54.707+02:00Hope you are not with this blog as I have enjoyed ...Hope you are not with this blog as I have enjoyed reading it for a couple of years, and I miss what you say and the topics you say them on - terrible sentence, but I hope you get it. Please come backKathynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2949086046279498177.post-9303446907665193482013-09-10T07:18:55.368+02:002013-09-10T07:18:55.368+02:00Fantastic I managed to see the final performance, ...Fantastic I managed to see the final performance, on 27th, and thought it every bit up to Herheim's usual standard; I have now penned my thoughts in the usual place...Australian business toll free numberhttp://vtelecom.com.au/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2949086046279498177.post-17718014420235012222013-09-03T22:45:12.568+02:002013-09-03T22:45:12.568+02:00Mark,
Regarding the comment in your review, "...Mark,<br /><br />Regarding the comment in your review, "It is certainly not the only way to perform Die Meistersinger, but the scattered boos Gatti – uniquely and undeservedly – suffered seemed more likely to have emanated from those who thought the work ‘must’ sound like a particular recording or misremembered performance from a ‘golden’ age that never was than from thoroughgoing critique."<br /><br />My thoughts exactly when leaving the theater.Dave Rosenbaumnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2949086046279498177.post-20751226714229090182013-08-30T17:13:44.782+02:002013-08-30T17:13:44.782+02:00One of the most moronic reviews I have yet to read...One of the most moronic reviews I have yet to read - even from the very same person who reviewed Gawain and complained that it wasn't like Donizetti or Abba! (The previous time around, he ranted about hating Birtwistle's music and the allegedly poor quality of the Royal Opera House's bar service.) I managed to see the final performance, on 27th, and thought it every bit up to Herheim's usual standard; I have now penned my thoughts in the usual place...Mark Berryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17693194967620507933noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2949086046279498177.post-69288729783357194592013-08-30T10:28:38.586+02:002013-08-30T10:28:38.586+02:00I question the bit about Herheim's not creatin...I question the bit about Herheim's not creating a "distance to the frightful associations." I think what he does is tactful and subtle: by narrowing the light to Sachs himself, the suggestion is that the statement about "heil'ge deutsche Kunst" should be taken similarly narrowly, i.e., as a political and aesthetic statement relevant to the first half of the 19th century in Germany and not in the broader and more "frightful" sense.<br /><br />We have productions that interpret that line as something ominous and frightening, e.g., Katharina Wagner's for Bayreuth, and I think most informed operagoers are aware of the associations you mention. So I don't see why every production of <i>Meistersinger</i> must plug away at that one association: there are a variety of interpretations, and Herheim chooses a different, less dark one. I think the point of view he takes is particularly apt given the general concept of the production, i.e., the relationship between dreaming and artistic inspiration.<br /><br />As to the overacting, I agree that Herheim's "big" acting doesn't always come across well in video closeups, but in my experience it plays entertainingly and movingly even in a smallish theater.La Ciecahttp://parterre.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2949086046279498177.post-70056362180614287142013-08-29T08:44:46.730+02:002013-08-29T08:44:46.730+02:00Awesome!Awesome!Ilenehttp://besttreadmillforhomes.us/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2949086046279498177.post-59293267092446908752013-08-23T16:03:56.694+02:002013-08-23T16:03:56.694+02:00Sorry, Opera-Cake, but this time I don't agree...Sorry, Opera-Cake, but this time I don't agree with you at all - and sorry again, but I'm definitively not a conservative opera-goer (by the way, Herheim is an idol for many conservative opera-goers as well). For me it's Herheim's show that's superficial and conservative - or better: utterly opportunist. You put symbols everywhere on the stage to please the "intellectual" part of the audience, but you make sure you please the "Staubis" (as the German say...) by putting a decorative stage design. Moreover, I didn't find it particularly well realized, with poor acting in particular. And I don't how the staging of the last monologue is supposed to create a distance to the frightful associations we all get at this point. Herheim is restoration, not modernity. It's a coproduction with Nicolas Joel's Paris Opera: that says all.Rameauhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06303312974693521042noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2949086046279498177.post-22354698254132494992013-08-22T10:02:10.278+02:002013-08-22T10:02:10.278+02:00Ah, there are always some who understand the music...Ah, there are always some who understand the music better:<br />http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/06/arts/music/reimagining-wagners-meistersinger-at-salzburg-festival.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0<br />Elizabethhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04291178011233997483noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2949086046279498177.post-35612323712661012272013-08-21T15:57:57.045+02:002013-08-21T15:57:57.045+02:00Reading reviews is sort of like hitting oneself wi...Reading reviews is sort of like hitting oneself with a hammer because it feels good when you stop. The clue to stop reading this review is in the first paragraph, where reviewer reveals his prejudice:<br /><br />"Meistersinger...which should communicate with radiant emotional and intellectual simplicity." <br /><br />SHOULD? Robhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16322512607114908183noreply@blogger.com