tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5607352.post4908534280402424476..comments2024-03-25T16:51:04.370-05:00Comments on <a href="http://ionarts.blogspot.com/">Ionarts</a>: Boulez Planning 'Godot' Opera for 2015 at La ScalaCharles T. Downeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14978821617871429169noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5607352.post-34014469480892871152010-09-04T16:31:06.372-05:002010-09-04T16:31:06.372-05:00In termes of modern music, Machart is not really t...In termes of modern music, Machart is not really to be trusted, he is more into Musical kind of thing and John Adams, or Glass. Useless music I would say.Denis Colinnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5607352.post-36978789940235094272010-07-12T15:22:18.123-05:002010-07-12T15:22:18.123-05:00I'm pretty sure it's not a rumour but a jo...I'm pretty sure it's not a rumour but a joke by Renaud Machart. I've listen to a lot of his programs on France-Musique radio and it's his type of humour. I remember that one day he broadcasted a "fake" Lachenmann piece he did himself.joaquim hockhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04438022636133061127noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5607352.post-58597605276290468222010-07-12T09:16:10.049-05:002010-07-12T09:16:10.049-05:00@Joaquim Hock I've read the article in the ori...@Joaquim Hock <i>I've read the article in the original French and Machard says "according to what I've heard".</i><br /><br />The phrase written by Machart, "<i>selon nos informations</i>," is rendered in my translation as "according to our sources." As I wrote at the end of the post, the story is not confirmed anywhere else, which makes it pretty clear that Charles T. Downeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14978821617871429169noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5607352.post-42668265490961995582010-07-12T07:49:50.871-05:002010-07-12T07:49:50.871-05:00Mr Holland,
I believe the context of the Boulez q...Mr Holland,<br /><br />I believe the context of the Boulez quote regarding opera houses was that his earlier work, prior to Bayreuth, was with a leading ‘progressive’ Parisian theater company, and that ca. 1960 was the early anti-establishment era of Darmstadt, Godard’s ‘Breathless’ and the flowering of the ideas of Artaud’s theatre of cruelty. Also, while I don’t recall off-hand the dates of Garth Trinklhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11084463787729969177noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5607352.post-70971821463311176742010-07-12T07:22:35.597-05:002010-07-12T07:22:35.597-05:00Anything from Boulez is more than welcome. I will ...Anything from Boulez is more than welcome. I will look forward to this work.<br /><br />But it still surprises me that composers continue to write operas when for some of us the genre is moribund. Opera audiences are mostly conservative and many operas go unperformed. A composer of Boulez's stature will of course have a production, likely several of them. His opera will get the exposure it Seymourhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09782636918483586205noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5607352.post-61010699609095229242010-07-12T04:58:31.240-05:002010-07-12T04:58:31.240-05:00@Williman Osborne: several composers used Beckett&...@Williman Osborne: several composers used Beckett's texts after his death: recently Dusapin for Echoe's bone(but he said the rights were very restrictive) or Kurtag (What is the word and a setting of several poemes in French and English). In a recent interveiw he even said he was interested in making three short "operas" on Beckett's short plays and Holliger with Come and GoJoaquim Hockhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15737243756701811691noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5607352.post-44747120202822717442010-07-12T04:48:13.068-05:002010-07-12T04:48:13.068-05:00I would be very surprised if it turns to be true. ...I would be very surprised if it turns to be true. I've read the article in the original French and Machard says "according to what I've heard". It's therefore just a rumor and then Renaud Machard is famous in France for his scathing humour and his love for Broadway musicals and John Adams' operas. His not a conservative ctriic, but he's not always very kind with Joaquim Hockhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15737243756701811691noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5607352.post-47477745017865377682010-07-11T16:21:30.134-05:002010-07-11T16:21:30.134-05:00Isn't anyone surprised that the Beckett estate...Isn't anyone surprised that the Beckett estate would permit any opera to be made of Godot? In the discussion prior to Neither, Beckett made it clear that he disliked settings of his texts and Feldman's agreement with this opinions convinced Beckett to go ahead. The estate is generally very restrictive about productions taking liberties with Beckett's text, so permission for an operaAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5607352.post-26174737719550806842010-07-09T22:12:06.516-05:002010-07-09T22:12:06.516-05:00OMG that play and that composer... worst of both w...OMG that play and that composer... worst of both worlds!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5607352.post-8854155061458790822010-07-09T20:33:03.680-05:002010-07-09T20:33:03.680-05:00It's an intriguing notion, but not likely to h...It's an intriguing notion, but not likely to happen. Boulez hasn't written anything new since <i>Anthemes 2</i> in 1998 (there might be a very short piano piece since), he seems content with orchestrating the <i>Notations</i>.<br /><br />Then there's his infamous quote: "The most elegant way of solving the opera problem would be to blow up the opera houses". Does anyone Henry Hollandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15871451112170286316noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5607352.post-6044222550290006432010-07-09T08:12:42.787-05:002010-07-09T08:12:42.787-05:00I'm skeptical. Beckett was a stickler about a...I'm skeptical. Beckett was a stickler about allowing adaptations of his work. He left his literary estate in the hands of his nephew who has been even stricter than Beckett. Boulez’s age also makes the story seem implausible. In the last 12 years I think he has written only one work, and it is small. The Met’s current commissioning program illustrates how ephemeral rumors of new operas William Osbornehttp://www.osborne-conant.orgnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5607352.post-57247850831151228542010-07-08T08:47:47.368-05:002010-07-08T08:47:47.368-05:00Earlier, Boulez spent many many years contemplatin...Earlier, Boulez spent many many years contemplating his first opera to be on Genet's 'The Balcony', I recall. His teacher Olivier Messiaen trumped him with his Saint Francis masterpiece, and Robert DiDomenica (with Sarah Caldwell in Boston; initially composed without prerequisite rights) and Peter Eötvös for Aix eight years ago composed operatic settings of the Genet. I think that Garth Trinklhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11084463787729969177noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5607352.post-55900673780989735382010-07-08T06:32:00.723-05:002010-07-08T06:32:00.723-05:00Whoever is chosen as librettist may want to take o...Whoever is chosen as librettist may want to take out life insurance. More than one earlier project has come to naught when the proposed librettist has promptly departed this world...Mark Berryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17693194967620507933noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5607352.post-66541536721324345612010-07-08T03:55:17.564-05:002010-07-08T03:55:17.564-05:00"...there is little doubt that a Godot opera ..."...there is little doubt that a Godot opera by Boulez would be one of the most important opera premieres in recent memory."<br /><br />So... I guess I know what we'll be <i>waiting</i> for?jflhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03017753357752263113noreply@blogger.com