October 12, 2008

Bringing sexy back to opera (II)

Wow. Who would have thought opera in the 21st century would be making theatre look bland and puritanical? (Well, New York/Broadway theatre, anyway). There is on major difference, however, between Don Giovanni at the Royal in London, and Salome at the Metropolitan. In London, it was the whole production, that heightened the eroticism and the sensuality [...]