Just in: Peter Sellars to open Salzburg
mainPress release:
The American director Peter Sellars will deliver the keynote address during the opening ceremony of the 2019 Salzburg Festival at the Felsenreitschule on 27 July 2019. The title of his speech is “Listening to the Ocean: Planetary Change and Cultural Action – The meaning and urgency of ‘ecological civilization’ in the next generation”.
Oh Jesus
Pseud’s corner. As if it isn’t bad enough that one has to suffer his pretentious repetitive masturbatory productions…
Just hope he gets a proper hair do. He always looks as if he’s just had a fright.
No – that’s reserved for the audiences!
How many of his productions were ecological?
Who can forget this?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMXU5pjhPTM&t=5200s
Oh man this is wrong on so many levels.
Yet… he is the first Don Juan on stage that is convincing as someone who bedded 1003 women.
Nonetheless, the final act surpasses all expectations:
1) Why is a little white blond girl beckoning a naked black man to hell?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KR73Mai2hxI&t=34m37s
2) Hell actually turns out to be pretty enticing, apparently full of comely, welcoming naked young white people:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KR73Mai2hxI&t=35m20s
Have any of you actually heard him speak?
Unfortunately yes. Interviews containing pseudo-intellectual streams of pretentious bullshit when trying to explain his latest productions.
If they need explanation they doubtless aren’t worth the price of a ticket. Give your money to a bona-fide charity instead, stay home and listen to Handel or Mozart.
Yes.
Pretty much what I expected.
Circus is open!
Bring ear plugs or come late.
So reminiscent of Wilson in “Castaway”. And about as interesting.
Apparently irrelevant to opera, I shall be glad to miss it.
The man is absolutely brilliant. If you were to spend five minutes in his presence you would experience an intellectual tsunami. Whoever puts this man down should be embarrassed for doing so.
I would not waste my time. However, he clearly would agree with you.
Opera is an art form that became so preoccupied with the bel canto voice that it
couldn’t continue to evolve. It’s partisans became deaf and blind to all other elements of music theater. Opera thus suffers from arrested development syndrome. One result is that camp becomes a sort of apology for the genre’s lack of musical and theatrical integration. Hence Sellars’ success.
Your experience of opera must be very narrow indeed if you think that’s all there is.
Have you never heard opera by Handel or Mozart? No ‘bel canto’ there. And people still love to sing that kind of music. No camp required. Just astounding music, deeply felt.