BBC2 Don Giovanni documentary 8:30pm
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Originally posted by aeolium View PostThanks for this alert, mercia. I'll record the documentary but not the ROH production which is the dreadful Kaspar Holten one (see discussions on Night at the Opera sub-forum).
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Ariosto
I've accidently been watching a bit of this and the tenor is driving me nuts so I've turned it off. Especially when they got to the period instrument orchestra ...
But that's just my so called taste.
I don't agree that DG is Mozarts greatest opera either. For me personally I think magic Flute is by far the best. Feel free to disagree.
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Perhaps we could agree that Don G is one of Mozart's greatest operas. (There are quite a number of them - the Flute is another.) I found this programme much less interesting than it should have been. It was far too pleased with itself. The "reconstruction" of the "finale" was very interesting and informative, but was appallingly filmed, with continual close-ups, not allowing one to see the overall staging for which they had worked so hard and which was supposedly the whole point of the exercise. The idea was to "recreate, as closely as possible, the very first performance". So it was very disappointing that this "reconstruction" took place in a film studio rather than on the stage of the Estates Theatre (which we had seen earlier in the programme). And it was very disappointing that the orchestra did not seem to feature in this reconstruction. They were playing period instruments; but I would have been interested to see how they were arranged in the theatre in relation to the stage, how and where Mozart stood in relation to them, etc.
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Originally posted by Ariosto View PostI don't agree that DG is Mozarts greatest opera either. For me personally I think magic Flute is by far the best. Feel free to disagree.
It's a pity the documentary did not actually use the Estates Theatre as I've seen a DVD of a performance there, recorded in the Mozart bicentenary year 1991 (Vaclav Havel in the audience). The production was not that great but it was interesting to see the theatre.
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