tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5998744234538946992.post8528098921240397804..comments2024-02-15T07:56:02.706+00:00Comments on Capriccio: Capriccio at the Royal Opera House with Renée FlemingCapricciohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11066947469648187572noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5998744234538946992.post-38873046798279261992013-07-24T15:47:31.721+01:002013-07-24T15:47:31.721+01:00I very much doubt it. Strauss suffered the same co...I very much doubt it. Strauss suffered the same complaints early in his career with his tone poems, and then Salome and Elektra, so I think he is simply drawing a portrait of the conservative theatre/concert goer, who is in love with the art form, but refuses to like new music which challenges his ears and prefers convention and the "proven forms".<br /><br />In addition, Krauss was very good at curbing Strauss' desires to lambast his contemporaries (e.g. there was a long debate in the correspondence about burlesque/Lehar) so even had Strauss wanted to have a dig at Berg et al. I doubt it would have happened.<br /><br />Of course, one can read into it what one wants - conservatives will admire La Roche's sensibilities, progressives will see him as a figure of mild fun.Capricciohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11066947469648187572noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5998744234538946992.post-75334692878035898282013-07-22T19:55:00.385+01:002013-07-22T19:55:00.385+01:00Hello Capriccio,
I have a question:
When La Roch...Hello Capriccio,<br /><br />I have a question:<br /><br />When La Roche quotes "old Goldoni" as having complained to him, <i>"Your operas are dreadful: paradise for the eyes, but hell on the ears; in vain do we wait for arias -- they all sound like recitative,"</i><br /><br />Just who is meant? <br /><br />Is this perhaps a covert dig at Schoenberg and Berg?Alekseihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11581363302791171286noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5998744234538946992.post-35937864016159858422013-07-20T23:53:57.028+01:002013-07-20T23:53:57.028+01:00The cut is bizarre, isn't it, especially as th...The cut is bizarre, isn't it, especially as the audience likes to 'get' the obvious quotation from Ariadne, if not Daphne. <br /><br />Agreed with much of what you say (and I didn't notice Gerhaher going wrong in the sonnet!). Fleming was more relaxed and natural at the final rehearsal - I think in the final scene she knew the voice was threatening to give out and overcompensated.Davidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14506881804082382739noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5998744234538946992.post-57043543698747942262013-07-20T11:01:48.280+01:002013-07-20T11:01:48.280+01:00Congratulations! I would have thought it was right...Congratulations! I would have thought it was right up your street. I keep promising a big blog post on the opera, and it will happen, I promise.Capricciohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11066947469648187572noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5998744234538946992.post-80142115364481189762013-07-20T04:29:52.747+01:002013-07-20T04:29:52.747+01:00I am a brand new convert to Capriccio... :-)
htt...I am a brand new convert to Capriccio... :-)<br /><br />http://parterre.com/2013/07/14/little-red-lorgnette/comment-page-1/#commentsAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12254138622622583294noreply@blogger.com