tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5607352.post7477215674025950584..comments2024-03-29T04:15:17.481-05:00Comments on <a href="http://ionarts.blogspot.com/">Ionarts</a>: 'King Roger' Decapitated in ParisCharles T. Downeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14978821617871429169noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5607352.post-27173434269731154032011-09-29T08:44:31.649-05:002011-09-29T08:44:31.649-05:00I sympathize with you about the spam. Using a dumm...I sympathize with you about the spam. Using a dummy email address for these things usually does the trick. I do encourage using one's name when commenting: anonymous comments tend to be the most trollish.Charles T. Downeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14978821617871429169noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5607352.post-3850617981251947772011-09-29T05:56:12.330-05:002011-09-29T05:56:12.330-05:00sorry - reading back I realise that, concerning th...sorry - reading back I realise that, concerning the remark about Lammermoor, you did indeed write nothing of the sort, and therefore my criticism is unjust. I got this from another website, to which I suppose I should redirect my comment.<br /><br />I find that commenting with my full details on sites seems to unleash a torrent of spam, but if you think that's too surreptitious, my details Feargus O'Sullivanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06078503473561048156noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5607352.post-15236472584892805822011-09-28T18:22:33.818-05:002011-09-28T18:22:33.818-05:00but to suggest that the production could equally h...<i>but to suggest that the production could equally have been of Lucia di Lammermoor suggests you are so hostile to anything new you decided not to bother trying to make sense of it very early on.</i><br /><br />I wrote nothing of the sort. I have written plenty of positive reviews of updated or altered stagings, where the director departs from the libretto -- as long as it makes some sort of Charles T. Downeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14978821617871429169noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5607352.post-90820346378145863032011-09-28T17:04:53.928-05:002011-09-28T17:04:53.928-05:00I've just watched the entire production on You...I've just watched the entire production on Youtube and I must say....it's brilliant! Seeing as the original libretto's Shepherd is a dionysiac sensualist cherry-picking bits from the world's religions, I can't really see why anyone would have trouble with him being presented by Warlikowski as a giggling hippy. There's a hint of the summer of love to Szymanowski's Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5607352.post-47857924384067013842009-07-19T12:06:26.622-05:002009-07-19T12:06:26.622-05:00I just posted the last 7 mins. of the production o...I just posted the last 7 mins. of the production on YouTube. The link is http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DM6aTNFCxWsUnknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01581757509182458021noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5607352.post-20280650158159863912009-07-09T11:14:56.837-05:002009-07-09T11:14:56.837-05:00I imagine Renaud Machart to look like Anton Ego fr...I imagine Renaud Machart to look like Anton Ego from Ratatouille. I'm not defending Krzysztof Warlikowski because based on this snap shot of the staging it looks like the director would have achieved the same effect if he had simply masterbaited on stage for two hours.Clayton Cyber PRhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00402955446765399275noreply@blogger.com