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(Msg. 1) Posted: Sat Jun 23, 2007 6:27 am
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Forgive me if this has already been posted, but it seems that Woody
Allen will direct Gianni Schicci in LA, according to Opera News
online:
Domingo, Los Angeles Opera's general director, has made the
recruitment of eminent Hollywood directors a notable facet of his
tenure at the West Coast company, and said that his courting of Allen
for the opera stage "takes the prize of the longest pursuit," having
begun some four years ago. Other film directors conscripted onto the
opera stage by Domingo have included John Schlesinger, who directed
Tales of Hoffmann; Garry Marshall, who staged the company's production
of La Grande-Duchesse de Gérolstein this past season; and David
Cronenberg, whose staging of Howard Shore's The Fly will have its
world premiere on September 7, 2008.
"I have no idea what I am doing," said Allen, when asked about staging
Schicchi, "but incompetence has never prevented me from plunging in
with enthusiasm."
Blue skies! -- Dan Ford
Claire Chennault and His American Volunteers, 1941-1942
forthcoming from HarperCollins www.flyingtigersbook.com |
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(Msg. 2) Posted: Sat Jun 23, 2007 9:03 am
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Cubdriver wrote:
> Forgive me if this has already been posted, but it seems that Woody
> Allen will direct Gianni Schicci in LA, according to Opera News
Considering the artistic atrocities L.A. Opera has already
perpetrated via erstwhile film, TV and "wannabe" stage
directors, Woody Allen might be an improvement! ;-) (And
"Schicchi" was at least INTENDED as a farce.) |
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(Msg. 3) Posted: Sat Jun 23, 2007 10:26 am
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On Jun 23, 9:55 am, Mark wrote:
> On Jun 23, 12:03 pm, "EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque)"
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> At the Washington National Opera, Domingo hired William Friedkin
> (remember the Excorcist?) to direct Gianni Schicci to good reviews.
We saw the Friedkin Gianni Schicci in Los Angeles a few years ago
and it was quite good, but I am still sceptical about Wood Allen.
Some
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(Msg. 4) Posted: Sat Jun 23, 2007 1:42 pm
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EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque) wrote:
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> Cubdriver wrote:
>> Forgive me if this has already been posted, but it seems that Woody
>> Allen will direct Gianni Schicci in LA, according to Opera News
>
> Considering the artistic atrocities L.A. Opera has already perpetrated
> via erstwhile film, TV and "wannabe" stage directors, Woody Allen might
> be an improvement! ;-) (And "Schicchi" was at least INTENDED as a farce.)
rudolf bing hired tyrone guthrie, margaret webster, jean-louis barrault,
garson kanin, alfred lunt, cyril ritchard, among others, from the
legitimate theater. some were wonderful, some were terrible. nikod
psacharapoulos directed at city opera with an lp libretto as his guide.
why one should be apprehensive about woody allen hardly rises to a
worrisome level. his film direction has always suited the material,
though those films were always to his own scripts. the comedy of
schicchi seems to me well suited to his theatrical sense of humor.
his take on the naked greed of the florentine plotters seems a nice
parallel to the schemers he has often found in his native new york. i
hope he leaves the setting in the original time and place. allen has
never found it necessary to explain and make "relevant" his works.
let's pray that he doesn't fall prey to gothamtrash. >> Stay informed about: more celebrity opera directors! |
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(Msg. 5) Posted: Sat Jun 23, 2007 2:53 pm
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On Jun 23, 11:27�am, Cubdriver <usenet AT danford DOT net> wrote:
> Forgive me if this has already been posted, but it seems that Woody
> Allen will direct Gianni Schicci in LA, according to Opera News
> online:
>
> Domingo, Los Angeles Opera's general director, has made the
> recruitment of eminent Hollywood directors a notable facet of his
> tenure at the West Coast company, and said that his courting of Allen
> for the opera stage "takes the prize of the longest pursuit," having
> begun some four years ago. Other film directors conscripted onto the
> opera stage by Domingo have included John Schlesinger, who directed
> Tales of Hoffmann; Garry Marshall, who staged the company's production
> of La Grande-Duchesse de Gérolstein this past season; and David
> Cronenberg, whose staging of Howard Shore's The Fly will have its
> world premiere on September 7, 2008.
>
> "I have no idea what I am doing," said Allen, when asked about staging
> Schicchi, "but incompetence has never prevented me from plunging in
> with enthusiasm."
>
> Blue skies! -- Dan Ford
>
> Claire Chennault and His American Volunteers, 1941-1942
> forthcoming from HarperCollinswww.flyingtigersbook.com
If the particular production does not work I think the music will
survive.
Kind regards,
Alan M. Watkins >> Stay informed about: more celebrity opera directors! |
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(Msg. 6) Posted: Sat Jun 23, 2007 3:22 pm
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On Jun 23, 5:53 pm, "alanwatkin...@aol.com"
wrote:
> On Jun 23, 11:27?am, Cubdriver <usenet AT danford DOT net> wrote:
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>
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> > Forgive me if this has already been posted, but it seems that Woody
> > Allen will direct Gianni Schicci in LA, according to Opera News
> > online:
>
> > Domingo, Los Angeles Opera's general director, has made the
> > recruitment of eminent Hollywood directors a notable facet of his
> > tenure at the West Coast company, and said that his courting of Allen
> > for the opera stage "takes the prize of the longest pursuit," having
> > begun some four years ago. Other film directors conscripted onto the
> > opera stage by Domingo have included John Schlesinger, who directed
> > Tales of Hoffmann; Garry Marshall, who staged the company's production
> > of La Grande-Duchesse de G?rolstein this past season; and David
> > Cronenberg, whose staging of Howard Shore's The Fly will have its
> > world premiere on September 7, 2008.
>
> > "I have no idea what I am doing," said Allen, when asked about staging
> > Schicchi, "but incompetence has never prevented me from plunging in
> > with enthusiasm."
>
> > Blue skies! -- Dan Ford
>
> > Claire Chennault and His American Volunteers, 1941-1942
> > forthcoming from HarperCollinswww.flyingtigersbook.com
>
> If the particular production does not work I think the music will
> survive.
No doubt; but
fortunately, Allen's direction is likely to work out well; contrary to
the pessimism of some, the man's a genius, as his films -with and
without his appearing in them- have been masterpieces.
Glad to see he's turning his vast talents and attentions to the World
of Opera.
Perhaps it's about time he did so.
> Kind regards,
> Alan M. Watkins- Hide quoted text -
>
Best,
LT
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(Msg. 7) Posted: Sat Jun 23, 2007 3:58 pm
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jimupde wrote:
> On Jun 23, 9:55 am, Mark wrote:
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>>On Jun 23, 12:03 pm, "EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque)"
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>>At the Washington National Opera, Domingo hired William Friedkin
>>(remember the Excorcist?) to direct Gianni Schicci to good reviews.
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> We saw the Friedkin Gianni Schicci in Los Angeles a few years ago
> and it was quite good, but I am still sceptical about Wood Allen.
> Some
> of his output has been off the wall.
Did you see the L.A. "Capuletti" and Trovatore" in the
1990's? (Talk about "off the wall"!) Although nothing
quite equals the4 "Pelleas" of a few years prior to those,
featuring a heavily pregnant Melisande!
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(Msg. 8) Posted: Sat Jun 23, 2007 4:55 pm
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On Jun 23, 12:03 pm, "EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque)"
wrote:
> Cubdriver wrote:
> > Forgive me if this has already been posted, but it seems that Woody
> > Allen will direct Gianni Schicci in LA, according to Opera News
>
> Considering the artistic atrocities L.A. Opera has already
> perpetrated via erstwhile film, TV and "wannabe" stage
> directors, Woody Allen might be an improvement! ;-) (And
> "Schicchi" was at least INTENDED as a farce.)
At the Washington National Opera, Domingo hired William Friedkin
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(Msg. 9) Posted: Sun Jun 24, 2007 11:10 am
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On 24 Jun, 12:44, "Stephen Jay-Taylor"
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> Though he tends to make very light of it in his dialogue [ "I can't listen
> to Wagner. After fifteen minutes I have this iresistible urge to invade
> Poland" ]
*Fifteen* minutes?
I personally find the 7.5-minute 'Rienzi' Overture (plus a couple
hours' fasting) inspiring enough to "invade" several Lower-Manhattan
Polish restaurants, along 1st and 2nd Avenues. Their various
specialties are always worth the while!
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(Msg. 10) Posted: Sun Jun 24, 2007 2:26 pm
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I wrote in RMO -
> > On 24 Jun, 12:44, "Stephen Jay-Taylor"
> > wrote:
> >> Though he tends to make very light of it in his dialogue [ "I can't
> >> listen
> >> to Wagner. After fifteen minutes I have this iresistible urge to invade
> >> Poland" ]
>
> > *Fifteen* minutes?
>
> > I personally find the 7.5-minute 'Rienzi' Overture (plus a couple
> > hours' fasting) inspiring enough to "invade" several Lower-Manhattan
> > Polish restaurants, along 1st and 2nd Avenues. Their various
> > specialties are always worth the while!
>
> > L Invasions Where Due T
After which Charles T. La Perv Bollmann, aka Stinky 'ljo', through
duly translated gibberish, uttered:
> My DEAR LOVEGOD MR. TILLMAN, THANKS A ZILLIONE FOR this welcome and
relevant segue from opera into your delicious, >nutritious,
stylishious diet, Sir!!!
Down, Stinky! I like adulation as much as the next Lovegod, but let's
take it easy, eh?
>We slugs are as interested in what goes into you as what comes >out of you. We are honored to masticate the latter, particularly.
While you may say you're honored, Stinky - you're not.... -in Operatic
terms- Goodunoff for it. Got it, Git?
> Aieee, the floculence of us boll-clones!!! We must devour our own >wastes!!! Heh heh heh!
In your case, that's Cannibalism, no?
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(Msg. 11) Posted: Sun Jun 24, 2007 2:30 pm
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On Jun 24, 4:36 pm, Dan Tritter wrote:
> ljo wrote:
> > "L. Credit Where Due T." wrote in message
> >
> >> On 24 Jun, 12:44, "Stephen Jay-Taylor"
> >> wrote:
> >>> Though he tends to make very light of it in his dialogue [ "I can't
> >>> listen
> >>> to Wagner. After fifteen minutes I have this iresistible urge to invade
> >>> Poland" ]
> >> *Fifteen* minutes?
>
> >> I personally find the 7.5-minute 'Rienzi' Overture (plus a couple
> >> hours' fasting) inspiring enough to "invade" several Lower-Manhattan
> >> Polish restaurants, along 1st and 2nd Avenues. Their various
> >> specialties are always worth the while!
>
> >> L Invasions Where Due T
>
> > How in the world do you justify this segue from opera boll-blah boll-blaaaah boll-blaaaaaaaaah
>
> > Aieee, the flatufloculence of me all . .
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> bollman, perhaps you could do a comparable segue by offering us another
> of your nauseating excursions with the fictitious mrs little jimmy, your
> roommate irving.
Irving, boll's roomie, is soon to desert the little boll-perv. Natch!
>your interests are generally confined to the few little
> remnants of your intestinal tract and its excretory product. >leave us.
> you smell.
To and @ the Stinkiest degree! Or, as we say: "Aieeeee! Schtinkt
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(Msg. 12) Posted: Sun Jun 24, 2007 5:44 pm
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Though he tends to make very light of it in his dialogue [ "I can't listen
to Wagner. After fifteen minutes I have this iresistible urge to invade
Poland" ] the fact is Allen's actual films belie his nonchalance on the
subject of - for want of a better term - "art music". He's directed 38
films, and at least two-thirds of them feature the imaginative, evocative
and appropriate use of the likes of Bach [ "Hannah and her Sisters" ],
Mendelssohn [ "A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy" ], Verdi [ "Match Point",
which concerns the opera-going English well-to-do ], Schubert [ "Crimes and
Misdemeanours" ], Gershwin [ "Manhattan" ], and frequent uses of Mozart and
Beethoven, all determined by him. The man may be more readily identified
with trad jazz, but he is plainly very musical.
I should have thought Schicchi would be in considerably safer hands under
him in L.A. than it was here last month under Richard Jones....
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(Msg. 13) Posted: Sun Jun 24, 2007 7:04 pm
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"L. Credit Where Due T." wrote in message
> On 24 Jun, 12:44, "Stephen Jay-Taylor"
> wrote:
>> Though he tends to make very light of it in his dialogue [ "I can't
>> listen
>> to Wagner. After fifteen minutes I have this iresistible urge to invade
>> Poland" ]
>
> *Fifteen* minutes?
>
> I personally find the 7.5-minute 'Rienzi' Overture (plus a couple
> hours' fasting) inspiring enough to "invade" several Lower-Manhattan
> Polish restaurants, along 1st and 2nd Avenues. Their various
> specialties are always worth the while!
>
> L Invasions Where Due T
>
>
How in the world do you justify this segue from opera into your revolting
diet. We are no more interested in what goes into you than what comes out of
you.
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(Msg. 14) Posted: Sun Jun 24, 2007 7:04 pm
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ljo wrote:
> "L. Credit Where Due T." wrote in message
>
>> On 24 Jun, 12:44, "Stephen Jay-Taylor"
>> wrote:
>>> Though he tends to make very light of it in his dialogue [ "I can't
>>> listen
>>> to Wagner. After fifteen minutes I have this iresistible urge to invade
>>> Poland" ]
>> *Fifteen* minutes?
>>
>> I personally find the 7.5-minute 'Rienzi' Overture (plus a couple
>> hours' fasting) inspiring enough to "invade" several Lower-Manhattan
>> Polish restaurants, along 1st and 2nd Avenues. Their various
>> specialties are always worth the while!
>>
>> L Invasions Where Due T
>>
>>
>
> How in the world do you justify this segue from opera into your revolting
> diet. We are no more interested in what goes into you than what comes out of
> you.
>
> Aieee, the floculence of it all . .
>
>
bollman, perhaps you could do a comparable segue by offering us another
of your nauseating excursions with the fictitious mrs little jimmy, your
roommate irving. your interests are generally confined to the few little
remnants of your intestinal tract and its excretory product. leave us.
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(Msg. 15) Posted: Mon Jun 25, 2007 3:10 am
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