Music: Lucrezia Borgia at the National Opera
At the very outset I have to pour a bucket of bitterness still the same spectacle unbound. Warsaw National Opera is simply Zenda! In the dusty corridors of frightening costumes dating back to the post-war Second Republic
and clumsy works of art that are not known until the end, how do they relate to the place of issue. Elevators require mercy! Steps like yet (the old patches) that are used to lay on the carpet, but do not expect to see him again. Fabric wall has long since lost their colors, textures and patterns and recall dismal rags spread on the walls. Barges with snacks and drink it at all a mistake! Coffee, brewed at the touch of a button on a bench covered with green cloth school, for which the director sat on the roll. Coffee that you can then enjoy the passage pseudogranitowego countertop next to the empty and dilapidated in the spirit of the bookcase or piano zapuszczonym. Well just a shame. I believe we should completely prohibit access to foreigners, particularly dignitaries, as is usual (another way) disgrace.
As for the present there was not much better. I walked a bit negatively geared because of the reviews already knew that is bad, but they fought with each other to give a presentation of a chance. Won the fight and gave a chance, just a show it has used.
Decorations exciting! Really beautiful. The action takes place at various levels of scenes, which gives a great effect, because we see a few places in parallel. In the end, when part of the characters is carried to the basement, the whole scene pulls up (sic), revealing to us what is happening on the bottom. It's really a lot of hard technical work, which should not be underestimated.
However the transfer of shares from the sixteenth century, during the Second World War I - completely unjustified. We watched and still, despite the scenery and costumes, it seemed to us that we are in the sixteenth century. What's the contemporization - hard to tell.
another matter. Promoting the homosexual themes. I wrote previously on the example
Henry James, how do I approach to removing it from the so-called content. and inter subtext. Here was the same. Just a bad idea. The main hero, Gennaro, falls at the beginning of art in Lucrezia Borgia, but it does not bother him to have a fiery affair with a friend. Entire Thread is based on a confession to make themselves heroes, they will be together until death. Actually - literature and art from Lucrezia Borgia never knew no glowing promises of friendship between men! Fortunately, only a small thread, so I will not dwell on it further.
But the worst of what happened to the opera, it is who plays the lead role - Joanna Wos. Voice, this lady is just very weak, as the sparrow. Feeble, wry coloratura. In addition, poor acting, inability to move around in a costume made it look Rather like an old hag chruściarka or dried than as heroin and one of the most famous of poison. Even the person you're new to things (like me) can easily tell when someone sings well, and when not. Well, along with Luka and found that even the best operatic aria is extremely boring, if it is wrong to sing. So we share the voices of those who:
a) impress and make interesting art,
b) so terribly bored that ass until it hurts.
voice of Joanna Wos, at least at the role of Lucretia, clearly include the latter category. It
almost everything about it. I do not recommend, waste of time, money and effort. Not the art itself, but on this issue. (Of course, the audience was delighted, but it seems that in addition to prime ministers, to attend an opera tłuki that they would be delighted even if someone loudly pierdnął). Unfortunately, Joanna Wos'll see more in the near future in the role of Eurydice, in the premiere of Orpheus and Eurydice
Gluck. Maybe this role will have advantages, because in all important here is the character of Orpheus and Eurydice is also not at such a strong personality like licorice, so I can have a voice weak and timid.
PS. I forgot to mention that the exploration of the gay thread Lucrezia Borgia was based also on the fact that the program contains a lot of strange art of articles on sexuality, by Mary Szyszkowska, Sylvia Chutnik et al.