I've heard Jenufa done both ways by WNO - the first time in Czech cond. Harding, 3 Czech language coaches credited, the second time in Engish cond. Mackerras, who was apparently all in favour of doing Janáček in English to UK audiences, I read somewhere, and I'd hesitate to argue with him. (The second time starred the much missed Susan Chilcott, a matter of weeks before her untimely death.)
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I wouldn’t say they sing better . Obviously it depends on the setting of the text, ( and I wouldn’t know about the Scandinavian languages ) and perhaps personal preference , but in general English ( and its great flexibility derived from immense variety of sounds within the language) works very well.Originally posted by underthecountertenor View PostI will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.
I am not a number, I am a free man.Comment
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Don is fine, it's in the OED. But Mozart needs a telling off for translating the name from Spanish to Italian. In fact the OED defines Don Juan as "rake, libertine". So I'd be all for translating the title to Don Juan. Note the proper title is not Rhiengold it's Das Rhiengold, which ENO translate as The Rhinegold, which I'm not happy with. We shouldn't go joining our words together to make it look a bit German. So I'd prefer The Rhine Gold. Kat'a - that apostrophe disturbs me, can we have Katya please.Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View PostComment
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Why? (He didn't do the translation, after all.)Originally posted by Mal View Post
You wouldn't happen to be a greengrocer by any chance would you?that apostrophe disturbs me,[FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]Comment
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It's not an apostrophe, it's a diacritic, specifically a čarka, I think. It should probably look less like an apostrophe by lying closer to the 't', but I would have to go on a training course to reproduce that using my keyboard. And it is correct.Originally posted by Mal View PostComment
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Exactly.Comment
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Blimey, Kramer didn't last long. What a failure. The company must be on its last legs, at least artistically?
The recent Merry Widow was a desperate farrago. Such a shame. Reggie looking down, appalled. "Look away, dear..."Comment
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I thought Kramer resigned a while back. Did I miss something?
He was an appointment borne out of desperation. I don't think he had much operatic experience at all.
I think ENO needs someone from the non-English speaking world to fill the AD chair. Other European countries know how to do populist opera well.Comment
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ENO announced closure of the Coliseum today: https://www.eno.org/news/corona-virus-update/
As mentioned in the other thread, it's not a big stretch to imagine that Covent Garden will be next to shutter its doors. In NYC, pretty much everything theatrical on Broadway, Lincoln Center, Carnegie, is shut down."Following the Government’s advice that all non-essential travel and socialising should stop to help contain the spread of the Coronavirus, we have made the very difficult decision to close the London Coliseum to the public with immediate effect and until further notice.
We will be in touch with ticket holders in due course."Comment
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Apparently the Royal Opera House has now done just thatOriginally posted by bluestateprommer View PostComment
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Covent Garden announced its closure at 5:30 this afternoon, very shortly after the PM advised people to avoid theatres.Originally posted by ARBurton View Post"I do not approve of anything that tampers with natural ignorance. Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone. The whole theory of modern education is radically unsound. Fortunately in England, at any rate, education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and probably lead to acts of violence in Grosvenor Square."
Lady Bracknell The importance of Being EarnestComment
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Unless the government makes it a policy to close theatres and halls they can't get any compensation.Originally posted by LHC View Post
The government looking after the assets of insurance companies at the expense of the rest of us (and this applies to pubs, small venues etc equally)
There's a lot of fuss going on about this at the moment...
What I want to say about this will get deleted
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