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mrphWell, I've been meaning to watch more opera for a while...
The WNO's production of Richard Strauss's Salome visits Birmingham in March. I now have tickets.
I like Strauss, but I've never heard the full version of this (although I have heard excerpts). Alex Ross spent quite a bit of time praising in it The Rest is Noise, mind you, which has definitely caught my interest.
And so far, my trips to actually attend opera have been limited to a couple of Philip Glass pieces, so this should be an interesting change...
The WNO's production of Richard Strauss's Salome visits Birmingham in March. I now have tickets.
I like Strauss, but I've never heard the full version of this (although I have heard excerpts). Alex Ross spent quite a bit of time praising in it The Rest is Noise, mind you, which has definitely caught my interest.
And so far, my trips to actually attend opera have been limited to a couple of Philip Glass pieces, so this should be an interesting change...
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Date: 2008-10-05 09:00 am (UTC)Satyagraha, his piece about Gandhi, is a little less explicable than most operas, from what I've seen. It has a certain dream logic to it.
Waiting For the Barbarians is a very different creature, much closer to 'standard' opera. Sung in english, based on the J. M. Coetzee book and just a little bit disturbing, in many different ways...