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| Posted by: Chazwaza 03:43 pm EDT 06/28/24 | |
| In reply to: NY Times Review - kieran 02:15 pm EDT 06/28/24 | |
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| A Little Night Music is not an operatic music. And the photo they've used is, I'm sorry, sad to see... because they really do look WAY older than Fredrick and Desiree should appear in the show. How on earth was this not done with Audra and Brian Stokes Mitchell. I just don't get this casting *at all*, and for a high priced concert no less. I'd love to hear this score orchestrated for 53 instruments, but this is not this way this show or most any Broadway score was even conceived to be produced. The reason it doesn't have a solid place in the opera repertoire is because it's not an opera, and while the sweeping music feels fit for it, the songs and play of it do not. And frankly, most opera singers are not good with the subtlety of the acting or the wit of the script, so they will mostly be casting outside of the opera cast pool. But the only operatic sounds come out of the 5 singers who have no lines really, and no big songs or no big solos. Their songs are wonderful and fun and they get several places to show off, but it's not something you're program a production of to give opportunities for opera stars to shine. It also doesn't invite much radical or visionary interpretation in terms of staging or scenic or costume design, and has rarely if ever received it. Opera repertory pieces tend to lend themselves to bold or grand or extreme or beautiful new productions, that's part of why people like to see the same opera several times, or why they can keep bringing back so-and-so directors production of the old opera, because people want to *see* that specific production. |
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