(February 28, 2016 at 10:38 am)bennyboy Wrote:(February 27, 2016 at 10:59 pm)Rev. Rye Wrote: I see your 1990 Kurt Moll performance and I raise you the 1954 FurtwanglerYeah, I almost posted that as well, but decided not to overkill it. I like the Moll performance better, personally, though I also really like the slower Furtwangler as well.
I have never heard the newer one you posted. I dig it! Very good singing, and the weird modern stage kind of triggers new neurons.
Honestly, I mostly put the second performance there as a way of saying, "the traditional staging might seem staid, but at least it's not this," with strange things like:
- Why is the set, which is, if memory serves, meant to be The Commendatore condemning Don Giovanni to Hell, done in so much white that it looks like a representation of Heaven?
- Why does the statue of The Commendatore look absolutely nothing like a statue?
- Why are the bikini babes there? They could be a substitute for the demons who carry him into Hell, but they don't really do anything. They just stand there and walk around the set a bit. Also, apparently, if photos are to be believed, there is apparently a scene where they're zombies, which makes no sense.
- On that note, what's that string some of them are wearing around their midriff, and why are only a few of them wearing it?
- Why do they stage it to look like Leporello's being framed for stabbing Don Giovanni?
- Why does Leporello dress like Raj from The Big Bang Theory?
As mentioned before, Michael Haneke, one of my favourite directors, did his own version of it in the same year (and it was revived last year, no less) and it seems interesting if a bit more restrained.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPzlF3wl_5o
Alas, this clip is all I've been able to find.
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