8/28/2023 0 Comments Vimeo erotic musical performances![]() The Spanish theatre director Bieito caused a furore when it was disclosed that his version of Verdi’s opera would include the rape and murder of a male youth, cross-dressing, male and female nudity and a scene in which the chorus sang while sat on the toilet – decisions which were said to have led tenor Julian Gavin to turn down the leading role. ![]() A Masked Ball – directed by Calixto Bieito, Liceu, Barcelona, 2000 and ENO, London, 2002 “You left thinking you hadn’t really seen the opera,” concluded the New York Times. She updated the action, making the amateur singers of the title artists and manically typing poets, and subverted its hymn to the glories of German art with a sequence in which greats from Goethe to Wagner do a chorus-line routine. Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg – directed by Katharina Wagner, Bayreuth, 2007įor her debut at the festival dedicated to the work of her great-grandfather Richard Wagner, Katharina directed a Meistersinger which had the audience making their displeasure clear. While a cinema simulcast was scrapped, the performances went ahead. At the Met in New York two years later, it was a different story the production was picketed by hundreds of protestors and its first night was interrupted by boos and catcalls. Photograph: Reutersĭirected by Tom Morris (brother of Chris), this production of John Adams’s 1991 opera about by the hijacking of the cruise liner Achille Lauro, during which the Jewish American holidaymaker Leon Klinghoffer was murdered by terrorists, caused muted protests when it was staged at the English National Opera in 2012. The Death of Klinghoffer at the Metropolitan Opera in New York.
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