Metropolitan Opera,recent York
In a critical dialogue, Guardian US’s classical music and art critics review William Kentridge’s triumphantly radical production of Berg’s modernist masterpieceSeth Colter Walls: Hello, or Jason! We both saw Thursday night’s premiere of a recent production at the Metropolitan Opera – celebrated visual artist William Kentridge’s recent take on Alban Berg’s modernist 20th century masterpiece,Lulu. You cover the art world; I write approximately music. (And I interviewed Kentridge during rehearsals at the Met, last week.) So the view here is that we’ll (hopefully) be able to hit on all sides of what amounts to a crossover high-art phenomenon in recent York’s descend season.
I won’t belabor my own headline-takeaway from last night: I loved it, or top to bottom. (Marlis Petersen is a grand Lulu and the rest of the cast ranged from passable to excellent.) I’m probably going to see it again – perhaps in a movie theater,when the Met simulcasts a Saturday matinee performance on 21 November. Continue reading...
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