tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-529401037377332056.post3113743453868154037..comments2023-10-28T07:09:35.754-05:00Comments on yugen: Postmodern Stagingtimothy nelsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00798906678581401602noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-529401037377332056.post-56734107492899966252007-05-06T09:21:00.000-05:002007-05-06T09:21:00.000-05:00Thanks for your comment. I completely agree with ...Thanks for your comment. I completely agree with your idea that people go to theater for the exotic. I think it may be just a question of what is "exotic". For me it is any representation of reality that is made revealing. Thats why productions that simply update the material do not speak to me. Productions like the Sellar's Da Ponte triology update, but they also re-examine the text to create something familiary and unfamiliar at once which is extremely moving. Since you have seen as many of my productions as anyone, you know that I explore the "exotic" in most of them, in so far as the production tend to be "different" or atleast diverge from the text signifigantly. My personal aesthetic doesn't lend itself to decadence or to linear narrative. I think one can use those as tools however, but for me "exotic" is more about the approach to the work and not the look of the work.timothy nelsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00798906678581401602noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-529401037377332056.post-74154088924012263752007-05-05T05:48:00.000-05:002007-05-05T05:48:00.000-05:00I recall reading this beautifully written essay in...I recall reading this beautifully written essay in the David et Jonathas program. As I now read Philip Gossett's "Divas and Scholars," I am wondering if it is at all possible to achieve a completely authentic performance of any opera in the older repertoire. There are so many elements in the music and in the staging that shift and change even during an opera's premiere run. That said, to those who would attack the "museum piece" approach to performing opera, I still agree with the view that many of us go to the opera house not to see the familiar but to see the exotic. Personally, I can appreciate both the museum piece and updating approaches and don't want to see complete abandonment of traditional stagings.Clayton Kooncehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05075385150588253823noreply@blogger.com