NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #31/NN_1992_31.iso/spool/rec/music/classica/19516

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From: [e-mail] (The_Doge)
Subject: Re: Britten: A Midsummer Night's Dream
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In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Jon Conrad) writes:
>In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] writes:
>
[...]
>Best performance of all, possibly, is the video from Glyndebourne, 1981.
>The production was brilliantly directed by Peter Hall, and the cast is
>marvelous (Bowman, Cotrubas, Lott, Davies, Duesing, Appelgren).
>
    Saw a rather nice production of this here in St. Louis this past
summer, as a matter of fact.  I'll post my review of it if I can dig it up.
As it recall it was quite well sung but not so well enunciated, especially
by Oberon.  If I hadn't played Oberon myself in a production of the play a
few years back, I would have been rather lost (as was much of the audience).
    The score really is fascinating, though, and I thought the use of
Italian opera elements in the mechanicals' "Pyramus and Thisbe" sequence was
inspired!

>Jon Alan Conrad
The_Doge
ObQuote:    "How wonderful opera would be if there were no singers."
            -- Gioacchino Rossini