Word: stagecraft
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...Ludmilla is one of the most overworked pops-concert favorites. It is also one of the best-taut, joyously melodic, brilliantly orchestrated. Thanks to the inquisitive Sarah Caldwell, we now know what follows the overture-an equally delightful opera. With Caldwell on the podium and in charge of stagecraft, the Opera Company of Boston opened its 19th season last week with the first known staging in the U.S. of this Russian classic...
Movies still are pretty much a national virus, and to people who really love them, Citizen Kane is the item to measure the others against. It's such a self-conscious work, that every frame lectures the viewer on film and stagecraft both--and even though its technical precocity makes it something of an exhausting film to watch, you want to watch it over and over after it's finished. Kane is the object lesson in American movies--in itself, in legend, in its tradition. It's not the starting point, but the center around which everything else moves...
...Ines de Castro. At the New York City Opera, the setting was the land of Talmudic legend in the U.S. premiere of Ashmedai by Israel's Josef Tal. All three operas were sung in English. Though the music varied in worth, all three productions boasted brilliant stagecraft and demonstrated once again the vitality of U.S. regional opera...
...through the troupe's stunts. The company, appearing at Brandeis this past weekend, stages a magic lantern show: one minute the proscenium is an expanse of bold color stripes, the next a field of white pin-points of light. Even when you remind yourself that it's all stagecraft, you're still astounded--it's hard to believe that one man, Alvin Nikolais, could choreograph score, costume and light such intricate theater works...
Money Tenor. The production is geared to the opera's sublime disregard for stagecraft. The sets, also by Ming Cho Lee, are elegant suggestions of an isolated royal redoubt. By contrast, Peter J. Hall's costumes are as palpable as the clothes people wear in Flemish domestic paintings. The two elements blend in Sandro Sequi's direction, which amounts to little more than staging subtly shifting tableaux...