What is this ridiculous affair? Trust the Scots to bring in something 'quirky' that turns out to be barbaric drivel. Those 'modernists' were talking great nonsense on the street corner, and it seems a shame that classical music has degenerated so.
Observe the long-hair'd hippy youth with his Pol Pot glasses. Tyranny of the eclectic!
I agree with you Whopsidoodle. They just take the music and the 'story' and pour it into whatever aesthetic they see fit. It is appalling. Surely opera is doomed. The same handful of operas are squeezed for every last drop of whatever they originally had. The middle/upper classes flock to it (that is another argument) and thus it manages to keep going.
Well these are my immediate thoughts having watched this video anyway!
What I don't see in so many productions is respect for the work of art. If Phillip II is presented in a sewer during an air-raid, does the production create a better story than the one conceived by Schiller? Is it a service to conveying the meaning and value of Verdi's creation?
What is this ridiculous affair? Trust the Scots to bring in something 'quirky' that turns out to be barbaric drivel. Those 'modernists' were talking great nonsense on the street corner, and it seems a shame that classical music has degenerated so.
Observe the long-hair'd hippy youth with his Pol Pot glasses. Tyranny of the eclectic!
ThomasHospitaller 2 years ago
naughty audience- clapping through the final chords at 6:56
japanesesweet 2 years ago
GO HAITINK!!!!
00000ppp 3 years ago
I agree with you Whopsidoodle. They just take the music and the 'story' and pour it into whatever aesthetic they see fit. It is appalling. Surely opera is doomed. The same handful of operas are squeezed for every last drop of whatever they originally had. The middle/upper classes flock to it (that is another argument) and thus it manages to keep going.
Well these are my immediate thoughts having watched this video anyway!
johnnyherb 4 years ago 3
Oh Haitink, you are a good man.
beethovenian 4 years ago 4
Great Youtube
charlesfrith 5 years ago
What I don't see in so many productions is respect for the work of art. If Phillip II is presented in a sewer during an air-raid, does the production create a better story than the one conceived by Schiller? Is it a service to conveying the meaning and value of Verdi's creation?
Whopsidoodle 5 years ago 4
Quirky? QUIRKY?? It looks like a crappy cubist painting
irpwny 5 years ago 4