I suppose getting an all-male Country Western number out of Onegin IS a bit of a stretch, but HEY -- the dancers did a fine performance. Nobody can complain that this was a boring number... the only reason Tchaikovsky "would be turning in his grave to see this" would be to get a better view. Thank you :)
@otherjoe1234 Yeah, I think thats the point starting with the Bourne version of Swan Lake, which is good but diffrent way of intrepreting it, but I think there's too much enphasis that Tchaikovsky was gay. We get it, most folks know he was by now.
Britten is different case his works are tinged with the fact he that was gay (in a very conservative period) but that's a totally different composer.
Quite simply one of the most stupid stagings I've seen. No problems with updating things (hey, I even like Bieito sometimes) but this looks like crap. The choreography was cheesy, often ill-timed to the music (the longer it got the worse it became). I "almost" like the idea, but the execution - at least as here presented, appears to be flat out garbage.
I was at the performance at the Munich house and I found the entire production totally off the wall.I would love to have given the director a brain operation. The only plus point was I did not pay for the ticket. I watched as the music suffered under such stupidity. Tatiana was a drug addict, everybody was gay and those who were not gay were mentally ill. Poor, poor director must have problem.
@sea1song I was there too and thought much of singing rather mediocre....but loved all the gay fun. Never took that opera very silly anyway. Nice change. And I noticed that the public loved the entire production.
@rumpwrestler I see what you mean, I think I would have enjoyed the production much more if the gay theme would have been handled a bit differently and a bit more style. I did not find it very subtile, and I thought the dancing was really third rate. At the end, I did find it interesting that Onegin shoots Lensky because of surpressed desires. I am not sure, there is any justification for that type of staging. In the hands of a capable director I may have enjoyed the production.
This is what happens if you can't afford to pay dancers. You have to recruit in the local owboy gay bar- oh, wait! That's where the dancers hang out anyway! It must be some director'd fantasy- rather than trying on the soprano's outfits.
But not much stranger than the Met "Sonnambula" I saw in the broadcast. But Juan Diego Rules!
well as a GAY, this is... well GAY! haa haa and i lOVE opera, but this is a little too much haa haa is ONEGIN really having GAY thoughts over Tatyana!? haa haa hmm! perhaps, thats how i would have left this show thinking " ONEGIN is a big MO, and he just wanted her at the end so he wouldn't be GAY no more!"
Tchaikovsky was as gay as a day in May... hey might have liked the progressive conceptions. I'd have to get a greater understanding of the entire production before I disregarded it. Zimmerman's production of "La Sonnambula" in New York made no sense at all! However the singing rocked my world!
Since the extras in opera houses usually are all gay, I am sure they really loved their job this time.
AfroPoli 6 months ago
this is just STUPID. what a way to butcher Tchaikovsky! I certainly hope the poor audience didn't have to pay to watch this travesty!
jeweladdict72 7 months ago
I suppose getting an all-male Country Western number out of Onegin IS a bit of a stretch, but HEY -- the dancers did a fine performance. Nobody can complain that this was a boring number... the only reason Tchaikovsky "would be turning in his grave to see this" would be to get a better view. Thank you :)
5678ralph 8 months ago 3
I believe this is total rubbish...Tchaikovsky would be turning in his grave to see this traversty of his beautiful music.
silverblue22 11 months ago
Terrible Polonaise Dancing...:P
charmeueueur 1 year ago
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charmeueueur 1 year ago
disgusting......absolutely gross what the régie people are doing to opera
papoocanada 1 year ago 2
Es ist schwachsinnig! Wo ist die Kunst geblieben?
LCCzr 1 year ago
Oh my.....
AleksandraPlamenac 1 year ago
well, they succeeded in making tchaikovsky even more gay, didn't think that was possible
otherjoe1234 1 year ago 3
@otherjoe1234 neither did tchaikovsky
qyzuf 1 year ago
@otherjoe1234 Yeah, I think thats the point starting with the Bourne version of Swan Lake, which is good but diffrent way of intrepreting it, but I think there's too much enphasis that Tchaikovsky was gay. We get it, most folks know he was by now.
Britten is different case his works are tinged with the fact he that was gay (in a very conservative period) but that's a totally different composer.
sirmercutio99 6 months ago
@otherjoe1234 lol!
cantanteporsiempre 4 months ago
Clearly done in the true spirit of Tchaikovsky himself.
irregularverb37 1 year ago
LOL. I have to "Like" this, if only because "Brokeback Onegin" is probably the greatest Youtube video title I have ever seen.
franimalistic 1 year ago
Quite simply one of the most stupid stagings I've seen. No problems with updating things (hey, I even like Bieito sometimes) but this looks like crap. The choreography was cheesy, often ill-timed to the music (the longer it got the worse it became). I "almost" like the idea, but the execution - at least as here presented, appears to be flat out garbage.
sharky123 1 year ago
I was at the performance at the Munich house and I found the entire production totally off the wall.I would love to have given the director a brain operation. The only plus point was I did not pay for the ticket. I watched as the music suffered under such stupidity. Tatiana was a drug addict, everybody was gay and those who were not gay were mentally ill. Poor, poor director must have problem.
sea1song 1 year ago
@sea1song I was there too and thought much of singing rather mediocre....but loved all the gay fun. Never took that opera very silly anyway. Nice change. And I noticed that the public loved the entire production.
rumpwrestler 1 year ago
@rumpwrestler I see what you mean, I think I would have enjoyed the production much more if the gay theme would have been handled a bit differently and a bit more style. I did not find it very subtile, and I thought the dancing was really third rate. At the end, I did find it interesting that Onegin shoots Lensky because of surpressed desires. I am not sure, there is any justification for that type of staging. In the hands of a capable director I may have enjoyed the production.
sea1song 1 year ago
LOL!!!
norisv 1 year ago
Wow...
azoressinger 1 year ago
What a lot of old Rubbish.The dancing is awful and so is the idea1
madgeson 2 years ago
This is what happens if you can't afford to pay dancers. You have to recruit in the local owboy gay bar- oh, wait! That's where the dancers hang out anyway! It must be some director'd fantasy- rather than trying on the soprano's outfits.
But not much stranger than the Met "Sonnambula" I saw in the broadcast. But Juan Diego Rules!
nmcaia 2 years ago
vey funny how thy show their undies..
morenofer2000 2 years ago
well as a GAY, this is... well GAY! haa haa and i lOVE opera, but this is a little too much haa haa is ONEGIN really having GAY thoughts over Tatyana!? haa haa hmm! perhaps, thats how i would have left this show thinking " ONEGIN is a big MO, and he just wanted her at the end so he wouldn't be GAY no more!"
ravenboytx 2 years ago
i am far from anti-gay... not far enough to BE gay, but not at all a bigot.
This is just strange though.
wotan3000 2 years ago
Eugene Onegin is my favorite opera, but when, where, and why was this done like this?
whatsreallyhoodbitch 2 years ago
SO DISGUSTING!!! Poor P.Tschaikovsky and A.Pushkin...Thank GOD They can not see this BORDELL. God, please,save opera from this...
larepimtb 3 years ago
Tchaikovsky was as gay as a day in May... hey might have liked the progressive conceptions. I'd have to get a greater understanding of the entire production before I disregarded it. Zimmerman's production of "La Sonnambula" in New York made no sense at all! However the singing rocked my world!
mrportobello 3 years ago
I believe that is Magdalena.
yippie-kai-yay
verdisinger 3 years ago
Finally we made it online! great, thanks! By the way: Who is the one giggling in the background?. . . .yeeha greetings to the urban cowboy community
crswayne 3 years ago