4.02.2010

The two operas I saw this week

The Fairy Queen:

An opera/play/ballet. Story by William Shakespear (A Midsummer Nights Dream), music by Henry Purcell (1692), set and costume design by Paul Brown (love him!). A production complete with black winged dancers, someone hung upside down in a spider's web, giant stack of hay, and a suspended golden horse.

And L'Etoile:

Music of Emmanuel Chabrier. Complete with giant blow-up yellow chair (that was deflated on stage), Magritte-esque mimes, and Victorian princesses on razor scooters.

2 comments:

  1. i think i just don't go to the rght operas....

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  2. Actually you were the one who told me about "Le Nez" which I never made it to!

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