tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5607352.post114465038309871357..comments2024-03-29T04:15:17.481-05:00Comments on <a href="http://ionarts.blogspot.com/">Ionarts</a>: Walton Rises to the OccasionCharles T. Downeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14978821617871429169noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5607352.post-1144807227972448122006-04-11T21:00:00.000-05:002006-04-11T21:00:00.000-05:00Thank you for blogging the review - a friend sings...Thank you for blogging the review - a friend sings in the Washington Chorus and I regret that I've never gotten a chance to hear them sing "live."Ginnyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11394350268917537734noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5607352.post-1144791527008814052006-04-11T16:38:00.000-05:002006-04-11T16:38:00.000-05:00Thanks for the correction... I'll blame the curren...Thanks for the correction... I'll blame the current local visit by the Royal Shakespeare Company -- performing Chaucer -- for confusing me.<BR/><BR/>While I think that King Priam is a powerful modern opera, I imagine that we'll see a Wolf Trap Opera production (when that opera center gets revived management) before we see a WNO Kennedy Center production. Of your three proposals, the WNO --under Garth Trinklhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11084463787729969177noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5607352.post-1144781999423198102006-04-11T13:59:00.000-05:002006-04-11T13:59:00.000-05:00Good to hear more enthusiasm for Troilus as a WNO ...Good to hear more enthusiasm for Troilus as a WNO vehicle. Alas Walton's librettist drew on Chaucer not Shakespeare so it can't be shoehorned into the 'Shakespeare festival' concept. This however raise a more interesting possibility: a Trojan Trio of repertoire (no jokes please) of Troilus, Berlioz' Les Troyens (long, long overdue for local presentation) and Tippett's King Priam. WNO has someAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5607352.post-1144764123276857552006-04-11T09:02:00.000-05:002006-04-11T09:02:00.000-05:00Thank you Mssrs Reilly and Pieler.... I think tha...Thank you Mssrs Reilly and Pieler.... I think that Walton's "Troilus and Cressida" would have been an exciting choice for the Washington National Opera to have produced next Spring (2007) as part of the regional "Shakespeare in Washington Festival", instead of the reprise (also done recently at the Kennedy Center by the Mariinsky/Kirov) of Verdi's MacBeth.<BR/><BR/>I recall seeing a superb stageGarth Trinklhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11084463787729969177noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5607352.post-1144683282094352662006-04-10T10:34:00.000-05:002006-04-10T10:34:00.000-05:00So right to give high marks to this performance, e...So right to give high marks to this performance, especially the combined chorus which for its size showed ample flexibility and nuance. Ms. Knapil though sounded warbly not wobbly, and just right for the Poulenc.<BR/><BR/>'Belshazzar' indeed works better live, tho the Ken Cen acoustics aren't up to it either. I don't hear a trace of Elgar in it, indeed Walton was cheekily trying to spice up andAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com