tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5607352.post114935496690823988..comments2024-03-18T05:17:45.683-05:00Comments on <a href="http://ionarts.blogspot.com/">Ionarts</a>: Opera Lafayette, "Idomeneo"Charles T. Downeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14978821617871429169noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5607352.post-1149871215702819682006-06-09T11:40:00.000-05:002006-06-09T11:40:00.000-05:00Jay, thanks for the correction, which is always ap...Jay, thanks for the correction, which is always appreciated. Well, if Breault sang that form of the aria, there is no excuse not to have the trombones!Charles T. Downeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14978821617871429169noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5607352.post-1149738542024021462006-06-07T22:49:00.000-05:002006-06-07T22:49:00.000-05:00Clayton, thanks for the explanation about the trom...Clayton, thanks for the explanation about the trombones. I wish that Ryan Brown had decided instead to let Mozart have what he wanted. I love those trombones and with Loup's voice booming from the balcony, it would have been eerie indeed.Charles T. Downeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14978821617871429169noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5607352.post-1149452767454682392006-06-04T15:26:00.000-05:002006-06-04T15:26:00.000-05:00Charles: I'm guessing from your mention of the dow...Charles: I'm guessing from your mention of the downpour that you attended Friday night's performance. Saturday night apparently had a more generous and alert audience. The house remained quite full, as far as I could tell from my seat in the middle orchestra section. The applause at the ending was generous, and the full cast, including dancers, did come back out on the stage for at least a secondClayton Kooncehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05075385150588253823noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5607352.post-1149444425309229602006-06-04T13:07:00.000-05:002006-06-04T13:07:00.000-05:00Garth, thanks for your comment. I think it is impl...Garth, thanks for your comment. I think it is implied, but perhaps not strongly enough, that what was given here was "complete" in the sense that it was everything that was performed at the Munich premiere. Everything that Mozart left out was left out. It is a beautiful opera, no doubt, and I have no problem with its length, but not everyone sees it that way.Charles T. Downeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14978821617871429169noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5607352.post-1149429357816529692006-06-04T08:55:00.000-05:002006-06-04T08:55:00.000-05:00Part of the problem was that we had all of the mus...<I>Part of the problem was that we had all of the music, but not enough of the spectacle.</I><BR/><BR/>Charles, my understanding and experience, from Friday's pre-performance discussion and my own aural memory, is that the score here was cut from its full length version; and that the cuts, especially to several of the longer arias including that following the recognition scene, were ones that Garth Trinklhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11084463787729969177noreply@blogger.com