Director Romeo Castellucci loves to shock. So how did he approach a novel production of Schoenberg’s challenging and complex opera for Pariss Opera Bastille?He has staged Julius Caesar with a helium-huffing Brutus,dumped 20 tons of ground bones on dancers during The Rite of Spring, and staged the onset of senility with diapers full of worryingly authentic excrement. So how would Italian director Romeo Castellucci – held up by his admirers as one of Europe’s main stage artists, and by others as a merchant of shock – face up to one of the most intangible works in the operatic canon: the 12-tone puzzle of Moses und Aron,Arnold Schoenbergs sceptical and unfinished last major work?Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com