Butchering Mozart Operas

[Quijote]

You always takes a blatant and rather smug (left wing) political angle on the issues - having seen the equally dire results of both sides I'm generally apolitical, I couldn't care if you call it left or right or that you're a Guardian luvvie (and no I don't read the daily Mail!) - I simply don't like many modern attempts to over sensationalise and to 'update' into a different context than originally intended. Take the Laufenberg Don Giovanini that people rave about - Don Giovanni lives in a luxury apartment, eats sushi (I don't think we're in Seville) and locates his lovers with a cell phone. He justifys this stance by praising the character of Don Giovanini, he is to be admired and even envied - he says (probably correctly) that DG is a modern character who fits in with todays world of consumption, pleasure (i.e utter selfishness) and most people aspire to be like him. Progress? I don't think so and that he can revel in it shows how far we really have sunk.

So, whilst I have taken my "punishment", let's take a closer look at your posting. I can see, Headmaster, that I have exercised you somewhat, forcing you into an apoplexy of syntactical chaos (see my highlighting of your post above). I didn't quite understand the sushi in Sevilla reference though, to be honest.
A Guardian luvvie? Maybe you're right on that one! I have a fine ear for music (I believe); I also have a fine eye for the posturings of the right-wing press, and having said that I would dearly like to know what is the newspaper of your choice, but I imagine you will not satisfy me on that point. Add smiling icon.

[Quijote]

Anyway, back to Opera. Anybody fancy L'Orfeo? How would you update the mise en scène with that one, hey?

[Peter]

So, whilst I have taken my "punishment", let's take a closer look at your posting. I can see, Headmaster, that I have exercised you somewhat, forcing you into an apoplexy of syntactical chaos (see my highlighting of your post above). I didn't quite understand the sushi in Sevilla reference though, to be honest.
A Guardian luvvie? Maybe you're right on that one! I have a fine ear for music (I believe); I also have a fine eye for the posturings of the right-wing press, and having said that I would dearly like to know what is the newspaper of your choice, but I imagine you will not satisfy me on that point. Add smiling icon.

I don't understand the Sushi reference either since I thought DG was set in Seville, so you'll have to ask Laufenberg, why not oranges? Both right and left wing press are equally guilty of 'posturing' - these days I only bother with a Sunday newspaper and if you have to know, it is the Times, mainly because I enjoy the cultural magazine. I can't stand the 'posturings' of a politically correct, biased BBC labouring a trivial story ad infinitum coupled with amateurish presenters, so my daily news comes mainly online from Google headlines where I don't have people thinking for me and can formulate my own opinions in a fraction of the time they devote to inane waffle.

[Quijote]

I don't understand the Sushi reference either since I thought DG was set in Seville, so you'll have to ask Laufenberg, why not oranges? Both right and left wing press are equally guilty of 'posturing' - these days I only bother with a Sunday newspaper and if you have to know, it is the Times, mainly because I enjoy the cultural magazine. I can't stand the 'posturings' of a politically correct, biased BBC labouring a trivial story ad infinitum coupled with amateurish presenters, so my daily news comes mainly online from Google headlines where I don't have people thinking for me and can formulate my own opinions in a fraction of the time they devote to inane waffle.

I was teasing you, Headmaster. You're quite right of course, the left wing press also has its "posturings". Please don't think that I buy into everything I read in The Guardian, I just find it the least irritating of the UK broadsheets, though I do find The Times to be my "second string" when I can't get The Grauniad (famed for its typo erros!).
Now, what about a modern, up-to-date stage setting for L'Orfeo?

[Peter]

I was teasing you, Headmaster. You're quite right of course, the left wing press also has its "posturings". Please don't think that I buy into everything I read in The Guardian, I just find it the least irritating of the UK broadsheets, though I do find The Times to be my "second string" when I can't get The Grauniad (famed for its typo erros!).
Now, what about a modern, up-to-date stage setting for L'Orfeo?

Reassuring Philip! How do you update a myth? Monteverdi set it in the fields of Thrace, (full of sunflowers and vineyards) and the underworld. Recreate that in a convincing way and you have a modern 'update' fine by me!

[Sorrano]

Reassuring Philip! How do you update a myth? Monteverdi set it in the fields of Thrace, (full of sunflowers and vineyards) and the underworld. Recreate that in a convincing way and you have a modern 'update' fine by me!

Have you not seen the movie L'Ofeo Negro (Sorry about the spelling.) It's a modern (Brazilian) version of the myth and I felt like it worked pretty good.