This is an utterly intelligent production that makes 'Les Troyens' resonate in the times in which we live. I love the fact that in the first half (Troy) the main action takes place in sports arenas while big cities decay in the background. And in the second half (Carthage) the world is lost, and the action takes place on a space ship modeled on the dome of Florence cathedral.
This video is a trailer, so it does not reflect the pacing of the production and the continuity between scenes. This is from the same house that offered a new production of Wagner's Ring (under Mehta's direction). Yet when it comes to being shocked or dismayed, it's been only over a century since opera was presented by singers standing in front of painted flats and mounted instead on in three-dimensional stagings.
Euro-trash pretty much sums it up. Anything to detract from the true nature and beauty of the music, the text, the story, etc. It's all about EGO - that of the production designer. What a jaded, calloused culture we are.. Whose uninspiring production is this? (not that it really matters)
@franceseattle Agreed totally just another attempt by some egocentric producer to stamp "his" concept on a masterpiece, because obviously he knows far more than the composer ever did. Yes, opera production has to evolve like most things, but it doesn't have to be in this manner which is just plain junk.
Un parfait exemple de ce que les Américains appellent la tendance "Euro-Trash" de la mise en scène d'opéra. Des metteurs en scène à l'ego enflé comme une baudruche, qui se servent de partitions sublimes comme prétexte au déploiement de leurs délires grotesques, et qui compensent leur absence d'inspiration par un maxiumum de tape-à-l'oeil hideux. A croire qu'ils essaient de noyer la beauté intrinsèque des oeuvres sous un déluge de laideur.
This is an utterly intelligent production that makes 'Les Troyens' resonate in the times in which we live. I love the fact that in the first half (Troy) the main action takes place in sports arenas while big cities decay in the background. And in the second half (Carthage) the world is lost, and the action takes place on a space ship modeled on the dome of Florence cathedral.
scampb14 1 month ago
This video is a trailer, so it does not reflect the pacing of the production and the continuity between scenes. This is from the same house that offered a new production of Wagner's Ring (under Mehta's direction). Yet when it comes to being shocked or dismayed, it's been only over a century since opera was presented by singers standing in front of painted flats and mounted instead on in three-dimensional stagings.
JZychowicz 6 months ago
That's got to be the stupidest stage production I've ever seen in my life!
pumaman1 10 months ago
Euro-trash pretty much sums it up. Anything to detract from the true nature and beauty of the music, the text, the story, etc. It's all about EGO - that of the production designer. What a jaded, calloused culture we are.. Whose uninspiring production is this? (not that it really matters)
franceseattle 11 months ago
@franceseattle Agreed totally just another attempt by some egocentric producer to stamp "his" concept on a masterpiece, because obviously he knows far more than the composer ever did. Yes, opera production has to evolve like most things, but it doesn't have to be in this manner which is just plain junk.
TheVaughan5 3 months ago
Un parfait exemple de ce que les Américains appellent la tendance "Euro-Trash" de la mise en scène d'opéra. Des metteurs en scène à l'ego enflé comme une baudruche, qui se servent de partitions sublimes comme prétexte au déploiement de leurs délires grotesques, et qui compensent leur absence d'inspiration par un maxiumum de tape-à-l'oeil hideux. A croire qu'ils essaient de noyer la beauté intrinsèque des oeuvres sous un déluge de laideur.
1Infini 1 year ago
Berlioz meets Star Wars. What crap.
jgesselberty 1 year ago
This production looks like fun. Some rather fancy technology.
rumpwrestler 1 year ago
C'est Berlioz qui est profané par cette mise en scène ridicule !
pelegrino791 1 year ago
!! HORREUR !!!! HORREUR !!!!!!!!!
papoocanada 1 year ago