Streaming Tan Dun - The First Emperor Online
Vendredi, septembre 10th, 2010 |
Streaming Tan Dun - The First Emperor Online.
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Critics have been very harsh on this new opera. This has happened before; composers have been misunderstood or not-understood at all by critics, while the public loved them. Seems too early to dismiss “The First Emperor”. I have seen it many times and every time I discover something new. The DVD is much better than the live broadcast I saw in the theater, the image is much brighter.
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The opera is full of symbols. I am sure I don’t even understand them all yet. Although the obvious theme is about the anthem, seems that the suffering of the builders of the Great Wall is a much more profound one. The wall is built to protect against the barbarians, while behaving in a barbaric way. Is this opera a critic to Mao (and/or others)?
The music is different, interesting and enjoyable. The singers are first quality and the Chinese performers very interesting. This production is the first one. May be it is not perfect, or it could have been done differently. I will leave that judgment for the future, when new performances are produced. Seems to me that a film production could be interesting, (like Chaudet’s film of Stravinsky’s “Le Rossignol”).
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I strongly recommend this DVD to those interested in the new world, not only of Opera, but the global village and China’s cultural integration with the world in particular.
This is an amazing stage and costume spectacle with highly unusual music that is sometimes pleasing and other times jarring. It is certainly different. Tan Dun even gave the orchestra vocal parts!
The overly simplistic story line and lyrics of the opera, however, were no match for the luscious spectacle enveloping the music and singing. Elizabeth Futral, for example, did a wonderful acting job as the princess with Eastern mannerisms but the English vocal lines she expressed were often just plain bizarre. Paul Groves’ part as the protagonist Fianli was just as strange. At times I wondered how he could keep a straight face. It was all just too simple…for the setting…or even to be an opera! (This is another example of the disappointment of hearing the Latin mass sung in English!)
So, it seems kind of unfair to criticize anyone’s part in it. A great singer like Placido Domingo cannot give more than the composer writes. It’s hardly his fault if it doesn’t fly! Same for the rest of the cast.
I’m glad I saw this production, but I have no desire to ever watch it again.
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