tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2949086046279498177.post7957518931685380381..comments2023-12-27T09:38:56.562+01:00Comments on Opera Cake: We will barock you: L-Orlando, or Alexander Mørk-Eidem revisiting Handel's OrlandoOpera Cakehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08940773671378765685noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2949086046279498177.post-30873614249777404302011-12-29T03:07:58.836+01:002011-12-29T03:07:58.836+01:00The professional reviewers did not like this produ...The professional reviewers did not like this production, as far as I saw at a glance...<br /><br />What I did not like was the use of pyrotechnics. In particular the bang when Orlando killed Angelica was just too much.<br /><br />What I especially liked was the specialty of KOB in general: Not having to rely on surtitels because the performance uses an especially prepared in-house German translation and the singing is pretty comprehensible. Recently the press speculated if Barrie Kosky will end this tradition, which I would not like. With three opera houses in one town there is no need for all doing it the same way.<br /><br />To some degree I took this Orlando as counterpart to Alcina in Dresden, and especially the end reminded me of it, in comparing how either production dealt with the flat happy end: The KOB Orlando turned it into comic, the Dresden Alcina simply got rid of it altogether.<br /><br />And so much for a first opera year for me...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com