Hippolyte et Aricie at Glyndebourne

[Nick Armstrong]

Has anyone been to this yet?

I'm going in August... and my heart just sank into my boots on seeing this photo of the opening scene:







Looks like they've hired Gordon Bennett as designer again...

[jean]

I'm going to the relay on July 25th.

I'm not paying enough for my ticket to mind having to look at the odd refrigerator!

[verismissimo]

Eyes wide shut, thinking of England, Cali. As so often necessary.
None of that problem at the Longborough Ring. Gotterdammerung this pm.

[Bax-of-Delights]

Caliban:

Will be togging up and scooting along on August 1st. Is that your day as well?
The reviews on the Glyndebourne website are mixed but not as damning as the reviews for Ariadne which were nearly 100% against. I see that by yesterday morning there were still 105 seats available for purchase for last night's Ariadne...and for H&A on August 1st there are still some 120 seats on offer. There would seem to be a fair amount of resistance to these productions.

To counter our disappointment with Ariadne (I doubt that production will ever see the light of day again) we snaffled a couple of restricted view seats for Marriage of Figaro at £75 each for the end of July.

[Nick Armstrong]

Eyes wide shut, thinking of England, Cali. As so often necessary.

How true that is Wish I'd spent the cash on tickets to the test match yesterday instead

PS: Baxo: I think we're at the one after that.

[Dave2002]

Might go to the relay. The music is pleasant. Our seats in the hall had a very restricted view, so at least in the cinema we should be able to see inside the fridge and maybe around the sides. Diana sings at length suspended above the stage near the end.

Verdi's Falstaff was perhaps the best of this year's offerings which we saw. Ariadne - well with one's eyes shut the last half hour was sublime, but the goings on stagewise were totally whacky.

[ardcarp]

Diana sings at length suspended above the stage near the end.

Is this all part of the willing suspension of disbelief?

[Nick Armstrong]

Is this all part of the willing suspension of disbelief?

Either that or the work of a tuxedo'd lynch mob

[doversoul1]

Caliban
Will this bring your heart back out of your boots? Or….

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/video/2013/jul/15/glyndebourne-2013-hippolyte-et-aricie-trailer-2013-video

I think I’ll stick to Emmanuel Haim’s (for the time being).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_KDx_0oxo0

All the same, I am very much looking forward to reading your and BoD’s reviews.

[aeolium]

I'm hoping to have a look at the relay as well (possibly in a cinema). In these sweltering conditions, the singers may be quite glad of a fridge - but why can't the audience have one as well?

[Nick Armstrong]

Caliban
Will this bring your heart back out of your boots? Or….

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/video/2013/jul/15/glyndebourne-2013-hippolyte-et-aricie-trailer-2013-video

I think I’ll stick to Emmanuel Haim’s (for the time being).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_KDx_0oxo0

All the same, I am very much looking forward to reading your and BoD’s reviews.

Having had a taster of Rameau live in the RAH on Sunday, I'm just looking forward to the music, nothing else...

(although I seem to be the only person in the world with an allergy to Sarah Connolly's voice )

[verismissimo]

Having had a taster of Rameau live in the RAH on Sunday, I'm just looking forward to the music, nothing else...

(although I seem to be the only person in the world with an allergy to Sarah Connolly's voice )

Such a personal thing, response to voices, Cali. I love Connolly's. But I can't listen to Kathleen Ferrier! She sounds victimy in everything to me.

[Flosshilde]

Caliban
Will this bring your heart back out of your boots? Or….

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/video/2013/jul/15/glyndebourne-2013-hippolyte-et-aricie-trailer-2013-video

Are you suggesting that Cali's heart will leap at the sight of lots of nice young men cavorting in their Y-fronts?

(& talking of h(e)arts, I notice that one scene has a stag hanging halfway up the wall. Most people are satisfied with having just the head ...)

[Nick Armstrong]

Are you suggesting that Cali's heart will leap at the sight of lots of nice young men cavorting in their Y-fronts?

I was looking at the meat and veg, I didn't see the Y-fronts.... ahem ...erm... I mean....

.... what I mean is, I only remember giant cauliflowers and sausages, were there actual humans in that clip?

[David-G]

I saw H&A last Thursday. It was a marvellous evening. We were a party of eight; and all of us came out on a high. There were, in truth, some aspects of the production which I might have wished different; but the whole thing was carried off with great panache, and much of the production impressed greatly. The music was marvellous; the singing was marvellous; the conducting was marvellous; and needless to say, the OAE played marvellously. I shall be going again in August, and am looking forward to it very much.