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Tag Archives: Robert Lepage
Adès, Oakes, Lepage
Watching and hearing the Metropolitan Opera high definition broadcast of The Tempest, I wonder “whose” Tempest to call it. If you listen to Joseph Kerman—who says the composer is the dramatist–you’d say it belongs to Thomas Adès: the composer A … Continue reading
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Tagged Alan Oke, Meredith Oakes, Robert Lepage, Shakespeare, Simon Keenlyside, Tempest, Thomas Adès, William Burden
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“First, it is ridiculed”
Stewart Goodyear posted the following quote on Facebook today: “First, it is ridiculed….; Second, it is violently opposed; Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.” -Arthur Schopenhauer Goodyear probably meant to speak of his Beethoven Marathon but I am borrowing … Continue reading
Posted in Essays
Tagged Beethoven, Ring Cycle, Robert Lepage, Schopenhauer, Stewart Goodyear, Wagner
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Met Walküre
Before I begin this review, I want to give a quick shout out to my pal Robert. “Salut Robert. Oui je sais que je suis “easy”, ou, comme on dit “You had me at “Wes Herd dies auch sei/ hier … Continue reading
Closing the Ring
I love it. When you’re writing about a great massive project it’s easy to be verbose, a lot harder to say something meaningful that’s brief, so let me get the most important part out of the way. As I said: … Continue reading
Lepage’s Siegfried
I watched the latest instalment of Robert Lepage’s Ring cycle at the Metropolitan Opera in a high definition broadcast. The celebrated machine that is the star of the production continues to amuse and delight. In the latest episode we see … Continue reading
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Tagged Eric Owens, Gerhard Siegel, Gotterdammerung, Jay Hunter Morris, Metropolitan Opera, Richard Wagner, Robert Lepage, Siegfried
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Lepage’s Walküre, or “Welcome to The Machine, part two”
It doesn’t matter how big they are. Whether we’re speaking of fame or stature, every singer in the current Metropolitan Opera productions (both Das Rheingold and Die Walküre) directed by Robert Lepage & his Ex Machina group shares the stage … Continue reading
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Tagged Bryn Terfel, Das Rheingold, Die Walkure, Ex Machina, Jonas Kaufmann, Richard Wagner, Robert Lepage, Stephanie Blythe
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Lion Taymor
I knew I was going to use a punny headline of some sort, this was perhaps the least offensive among my options. I saw The Lion King tonight, admittedly years after its opening, and awhile after its first appearance in … Continue reading
Risky performance: when it’s not just a metaphor
Will the new Spiderman musical ever open? It’s been prohibitively expensive to marry Julie Taymor‘s vision to the music of Bono & The Edge. I’ve read estimates of $65 million USD: and counting. One wonders how many years of full … Continue reading
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Tagged aerial, Berlioz, Bono, carnivalesque, circus, Damnation de Faust, Das Rheingold, erwartung, Ex Machina, Julie Taymor, risky, Robert Lepage, Spider Man: Turn Off the Dark, Spiderman, The Edge, Wagner
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Eonnagata in Toronto
The opening image of Eonnagata, the latest production from Ex Machina, Robert Lepage’s company that premiered recently at the Sony Centre, reminded me of a seminal moment of Wagner’s Das Rheingold, the opera that begins the Ring cycle. We see … Continue reading
