''Poor Norma! Her chandelier crashes from the ceiling, there's a transvestite sitting at her white piano perusing the score of Bellini's opera, her lover has a roll with a vestal virgin on her futon, space aliens keep dropping in to survey the situation, and her living room is turned into a barbecue pit".
These are the words with which LARRY L. LASH begins his review on the Prague Norma in the January 2008 issue of OperaNews! Interesting indeed! a quick googling gave me these fotos:
Photo by Hana Smejkalova
All photos appear to be courtesy of www.narodni-divadlo.cz (THE ROYAL CZECH LAND´S AND NATIONAL THEATRE)
Here is more of Larry L. Lash's review:
"The person of dubious gender turns out to be Adalgisa, a stereotypical "stage lesbian" in men's pants, a marcel bob tucked under a fedora, and a cravat. Program notes claim to conjure the salon society of George Sand, but the rest of the production is set, apparently, mid-World War II, complete with grainy black-and-white film footage of bombs falling during "Ah! bello a me ritorna."
''Had I been there in a private rather than professional capacity, I would have been the first to yell, "Vergogna!''
De toute façon, here is Olga Makarina singing Casta Diva in Prague on the 4th of November.
"The person of dubious gender turns out to be Adalgisa, a stereotypical "stage lesbian" in men's pants, a marcel bob tucked under a fedora, and a cravat. Program notes claim to conjure the salon society of George Sand, but the rest of the production is set, apparently, mid-World War II, complete with grainy black-and-white film footage of bombs falling during "Ah! bello a me ritorna."
''Had I been there in a private rather than professional capacity, I would have been the first to yell, "Vergogna!''
De toute façon, here is Olga Makarina singing Casta Diva in Prague on the 4th of November.
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2 comments:
Kala to exoyn xeftylisei pia...
kai pou na evlepe tin Carmen tou kalokairiou o kirioulis sto Herodeio bou hahaahahahaha
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