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Jun 19, 2019 - 1:06 PM
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Rozsaphile
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Operatic production was paramount for most of Zeffirelli's career. This NY Times assessment summarizes today's conventional wisdom on the subject, namely, that Z. gradually declined from imaginative, colorful stagecraft to mere bloat and sensation. There are doubtless several of his productions on video, though it is doubtful whether that medium can replicate the full impact of his spectacular Met stagings. But the two photos are revealing. Turandot, which I've enjoyed, is an exotic fairy tale from Imperial China. Surely the spectacle and Chinoiserie are appropriate. But La Bohème, which I've not seen, is an intimate story of starving artists in a Parisian garret. You can see why many think Z. overdid things. Audiences, however, loved it. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/17/arts/music/franco-zeffirelli-dead.html?searchResultPosition=5
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Operatic production was paramount for most of Zeffirelli's career. This NY Times assessment summarizes today's conventional wisdom on the subject, namely, that Z. gradually declined from imaginative, colorful stagecraft to mere bloat and sensation. There are doubtless several of his productions on video, though it is doubtful whether that medium can replicate the full impact of his spectacular Met stagings. But the two photos are revealing. Turandot, which I've enjoyed, is an exotic fairy tale from Imperial China. Surely the spectacle and Chinoiserie are appropriate. But La Bohème, which I've not seen, is an intimate story of starving artists in a Parisian garret. You can see why many think Z. overdid things. Audiences, however, loved it. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/17/arts/music/franco-zeffirelli-dead.html?searchResultPosition=5 I think there's a line in a Lina Wertmuller film in which one character scorns another with, "Your idea of poverty is living in a garret designed by Zeffirelli!"
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