This excerpt from WQXR's (Classical Radio in New York City) Conducting Business series is a discussion of the Deutsche Oper am Rhein's "controversial" Tannhäuser. On the panel are ENO's John Berry, Parterre Box's James Jorden, and the Washington Post’s Anne Midgette, chaired by Naomi Lewin.
Note that everyone on the panel declines to make an artistic judgement about the production, because they haven't seen it. The commentators on this panel are refreshingly open-minded.
As one need not eat a rotten egg to know it's rotten, one need not see most Eurotrash productions to know it's self-indulgent crap.
ReplyDeleteBut you do have to get close enough to the egg to be able smell it. :)
DeleteThanks for reading!
Finally, not mindless hate but an actual intelligent discussion! I am far from being a die-hard fan of Regie, but I don't think I've ever gotten so angry about something opera-related than this Tannhauser affair or the majority of comments on it.
ReplyDeleteMe too also angry, and ready to move on.
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