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In the Thread: Wagner and loudness.
Post Subject: Modern WagnerPosted by decoud on: 2/24/2013
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I have to say there is hardly a production of Wagner these days that is not fucked up in some way, as if the only people who dare stage him are so narcissistic they will not let him compete with them, and need to try to handicap his power.  Covent Garden did a Tristan a few years back where the central characters never came together physically and occupied two different parts of the stage, helpfully illuminated red and blue, as if signposted to a lavatory. I wish Bayreuth were an exception to this, but I cannot see any evidence for it. Roger Scruton wrote elegantly about this a while back: http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2003/apr/12/classicalmusicandopera.artsfeatures1
 

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