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Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2005 21:04:19 +0100
From: "Bjarne og Leif Drews" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [h-cost] theater opera costumes in general
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Hi the list.
I went to an opera with the oldest opera ever performed, Monteverdis
Olysses.
Music and orchestra was very impressive but the costumes!
I would like to ask you who might makes costumes for stage, why does it have
to be modern and artistic?
I have the feeling it is an intempt to try to drag more people to come to
theaters, that they make the costumes modern and artistic.
I am totally disagreable in this, i hate the very guts of those stupid, and
tedious scenografers, who destroys my want to go and have a fantastic time,
i was so disapointed and i could just as well have gone to a cd shop and buy
the opera, and stay home.
What are your oppinons about this, why in heavens name dont they make period
costumes, what is wrong with this, and would the modern audiense hate this?
Bjarne.......................
The simple answer is innovation. Producers and directors of opera are
always trying to be innovative, to bring something new and fresh and
different to opera and Shakespeare and classical literature. They can't
mess with the words and music, those are set in stone (unless you're Franco
Zefferelli who thinks he knows better than Verdi how La Traviata and
Othello should end, but that's another story). So the only thing left to
them is the production itself - the sets and costumes.
I sometimes think that because they =can't= mess with the words and music,
they go way overboard with with they can and do change around. If you
present a production in correct period sets and costumes you're seen as
having no imagination and the rest of the opear/theatre world dismisses you
(and likely the rest of your career) as a no-talent hack. The opera world
is astonishingly vicious.
It may sound ugly, but that's the truth.
Julie
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