Ruth Leon recommends – Candide on the beach
Ruth Leon recommends Candide – Opera Company of Middlebury (Vermont)
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June 15-30
I guess we’ll have to watch the Opera Company of Middlebury’s production of Candide to discover why they’ve set it in a beach shack but it should be interesting. This is an imaginative retelling of Leonard Bernstein’s operetta.
Although the production contains traditional theatrical elements, it also embraces 21st century technology. Using drones, green screen imagery, rear projections, and other cinematic techniques, the Opera Company of Middlebury is exploring the boundaries of opera’s potential.
The company says that, rather than dwelling on the impossibility of live performance, the creative team decided to move opera onto a new platform for them – film. Their artistic director Doug Anderson took a chance on creating a filmed production of Candide, further exploring how to enhance what the Opera Company of Middlebury does best: telling stories. This is the result.
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It’s an odd comment from the theatre: The company says that, rather than dwelling on the impossibility of live performance… Middlebury is in Addison County, which has been COVID-free for weeks. Vermont just lifted all COVID restrictions because of its high vaccination rate. The WSJ today wrote: Vermont, Most-Vaccinated State in the U.S., Drops All Covid-19 Restrictions. State says 80% of eligible population has received at least one shot. What’s there to dwell on?