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I'm a Rossini, Verdi, Mozart person who avoids new music. Yet the NYT's review was enthusiastic. So, I considered that I do like the Tempest, incl variations from Enchanted Isand to Prospero's Books. And there were all those chest tatoos (though in the event, their promise of edgy-ness wasn't quite fulfulled). So I went. This was a largely traditional reading, if with a 21c slant, eg Miranda & Ferdinand just decide they'll get married (or mebbe are married), without staying for Prospero's permission. I was struck during intermission interviews that several singers said how hard the music was, though it'd take someone more knowledgeable than I actually to hear this. What held me was the production, eg, the nifty way characters entered & exited. AND ARIEL - stunning, lots of gymnastic & sinuous things going on, plus extraordinary singing: high-pitched, metalic, non-human, delicate, recognizably coloratura. I will long rememember Ariel. Go for Ariel if nothing else. ...(read more)
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I had a great time. Much as I like baroque music, I did have a flicker of concern early on that 3 hours might be too much - but the singing so nicely filled things out musically that it was a delight throughout. Joyce DiDinato was my favorite. It was nice during intermission to have her comments about building character & decisions about inflection. Costumes were elaborately fantastical - delightful. It was fun to find a couple of Miranda's Tempest lines handed to a different character here. How fitting that Ferdinand turns out to be another counter-tenor. What else? O frivolously, or perhaps not, there's something to be said for pairing Miranda with Caliban. Both are so open with their parents, talking to them even about love & desire. Oh sure, he does show a nasty streak, yet he's so wondrously introspective. His first feelings for the Midsummer Night's Dream lady - desire plus worship - came out as wondrous, no longer cliche. ...(read more)
I had a great time. Much as I like baroque music, I did have a flicker of concern early on that 3 hours might be too much - but the singing so nicely filled things out musically that it was a delight throughout. Joyce DiDinato was my favorite. It was nice during intermission to have a her comments about building character & decisions about inflection. Costumes were elaborately fantastical - delightful. It was fun to find a couple of Miranda's Tempest lines handed to a different character here. How fitting that Ferdinand turns out to be another counter-tenor. What else? O frivolously, or perhaps not, there's something to be said for pairing Miranda with Caliban. Both are so open with their parents, talking to them even about love & desire. For sure, he does show a nasty streak, yet he's so wondrously introspective. His first feelings for the Midsummer Night's Dream lady - desire plus worship - sounded wondrous, no longer cliche. ...(read more)
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