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LA Opera's
new production of
I Capuleti e i Montecchi
Richard Hickox, Conductor
Thor Steingraber, Director
Robert Israel, Stage Designer
Laura Claycomb as Giulietta
-performed October 13, 16, 20, 23, 28, and 31 (1999)
The LA Opera production directed by Thor Steingraber, a new addition to
its repertoire, pleased the audience both as music and theater.
The transposition from Renaissance Verona to circa 1910 Verona worked
- causing no gross incongruities in the telling of the tale; as did the
inclusion during the orchestral interludes of dance sequences (by Mentzer/Claycomb
look-alikes)which allowed the audience a visually graceful way to anticipate
events in the succeeding scenes; and the sparse, near-minimalist but strikingly
affective stage sets by Robert Israel, who again worked wonders with less-is-more,
as he did in the Met's Wozzeck.
Richard Hickox, back in LA after Salome
in 1998, masterfully conducted.
Note: Although all tales of Romeo and Juliet are about young love trapped in family feuds, Bellini's I Capuleti bears only a remote resemblance to Shakespeare's familiar version from which Gounod's and most other musical adaptations derive.
Click HERE for a comparison.
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