I absolutely HATE it when the news media thinks it's okay to talk
bad about opera performances/singers. Here's an article from a few days ago.
I understand that there might be some problems, but that doesn't mean that you can be all rude about it! They make it sound like singing and putting on an opera production is easy!
I mean really "If that is no way to be a singer, it is also no way to direct an opera."--How rude is that? "the Met’s expensive, empty “Ring,” which values technical achievement over ideas and passion."--Don't they know that the met was trying to put Wagner's grand-scale ideas into play by making this plank machine? "Ideas and passion"--The machine was displaying Wagner's IDEAS. Also, how can they say that the Met wasn't focusing on passion? Opera is not a simple task. They clearly don't understand that the Met devoted HOURS of rehearsals into the MUSIC and its PASSION. Heres another RUDE article-http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/08/met-opera-ring-cycle-stage-problems-interrupt-performance-das-rheingold_n_3039369.html
"It's not just the golden ring that carries a curse. The Metropolitan Opera's production of Wagner's epic seems to as well."--The production carries a curse? Let's see THEM make a production like that! "None of this would matter quite so much, except that Lepage's production is all about spectacle, sadly at the expense of much attention to dramatic interactions among the characters, let alone any overarching interpretive concept."--They don't seem to understand that the WHOLE REASON FOR THE STAGING WAS TO EXPRESS WAGNER'S ORIGINAL IDEAS AND DRAMATIC INTENTIONS.
I understand that they're critics but still....So rude...
Feel free to post any comments/opinions...I need some of those...
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