For some, these stagings, while certainly dazzling, were overly busy.
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He keeps the stagings sparse and the accompanying information even sparser.
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The stagings in both Brooklyn and Los Angeles concentrated on spectacle.
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That fascination — a fixation, really — began to drive and define his stagings.
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That means many spare stagings, which often feel as cheap as they are.
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The events may be familiar, but their stagings are unusual and often uncanny.
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The new space should be even more conducive to stagings like this one.
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We can argue about stagings and singers, but the operation overall is solid.
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Instagram museums are spaces specifically created to provide Instagram-worthy photo stagings for visitors.
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His best productions combined singing, acting, movement and scenic designs into finely integrated stagings.
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Fiasco, known for imaginative, fat-free stagings, does not aim for fancy or swell.
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This musical adaptation of J. M. Barrie's "Peter Pan" differs from most theatrical stagings.
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But thoughtful stagings can continue to make audiences reflect on their own prejudices and shortcomings.
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Grand stagings are mixed with more idiosyncratic, intimate presentations, including forays into cabaret and drag.
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Nikolai Sergeyev, an émigré ballet master, took out the notations for stagings in the West.
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Stagings turned bolder; the repertory was refreshed to add Messiaen, Ligeti, Janacek and new works.
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The focus on visual detail (and on musicality) gives his stagings an air of sumptuousness.
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Financial pressures, meanwhile, curtailed his plans for premières, opera stagings, and revivals of twentieth-century scores.
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Some of his stagings, even ones that remain in the libretto's period, have provoked fierce backlashes.
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Where Mr. van Hove diverges from previous stagings is in doubling down on the plot's brutality.
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With powerfully contemporary stagings of "Betrayal" and "Cyrano," Jamie Lloyd has had an attention-grabbing year.
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The lone International victory in 12 stagings of the event came at Royal Melbourne in 1998.
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Joe tossed out his previous stagings, transitions and motivations and started this fresh-baked hell from scratch.
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Along with a 150-year history of musical excellence, it has a reputation for old-fashioned stagings.
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From Freud's time, his operas have been seen as stagings of the dramas that dominate psychoanalytic theory.
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Rock has the hacking skills, but he needed to find an expert on overthrowing governments and stagings coups.
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Such theatricalizations of instrumental music have become a Sellars signature, notably in his stagings of the Bach Passions.
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The Met's productions this season feature no female composers, no female conductors, and no women directing new stagings.
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Recent iconoclastic stagings by the German director Frank Castorf have irked traditionalists by tinkering with the source material.
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Mr. McKenzie grew up in the United States, but his stagings show a hearty indifference to such niceties.
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And, in more than a few latter-day stagings, Isolde meets a grislier demise than what Wagner envisaged.
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Craig Zadan and Neil Meron, the Chicago producers who are behind all of the previous NBC live stagings, return.
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The musical, which has been much praised in previous stagings, is a highlight of the next season for MCC.
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Go: New stagings of "Don Giovanni" and "Rigoletto" in Paris and Berlin are co-productions with the Metropolitan Opera.
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It's the latest of Mr. Ratmansky's stagings of work by the French-born choreographer whose career flourished in Russia.
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This is a skirmish in a larger war pitting fans of traditional stagings against those who crave modern reinterpretations.
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Go: New stagings of "Don Giovanni" and "Rigoletto" recently premiered in Europe; they are co-productions with the Metropolitan Opera.
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Rarely does this happen, but the opera is being rolled out in different languages, and different stagings, in quick succession.
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Kusama and Murakami's representatives have said the artists were unaware of the stagings, and believe the works to be fakes.
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Ultra-tight, ultra jazzy neo-soul is the perfect match for the low-key stagings of NPR's Tiny Desk Concert series.
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Since the inception of the Presidents Cup in 1994, the U.S. has lost just once in 12 stagings, with one tie.
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These are just a few words from the mouths of delighted publications reacting to stagings of Sarah Kane's first play Blasted.
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Current tenors must perform in more complex stagings while singing a score without the substantial cuts taken a hundred years ago.
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In recent years the choreographer Alexei Ratmansky has often delved into the past to create historically informed stagings of classical ballets.
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Mr. Cheréau's milestone 1976 staging of Wagner's "Ring," for the Bayreuth Festival in Germany, was the grandfather of all those stagings.
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The Italian conductor Michele Mariott will lead the orchestra; Alvis Hermanis, a Latvian actor and dramatist known for his innovative stagings, directs.
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The International team, comprised of players from outside the U.S. and Europe, have won the event only once in its 12 stagings.
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Human contact is precisely what these productions have established — probably a rarer thing than it ought to be in stagings of O'Neill.
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Rameau, Lully, Vivaldi: The glory of early music could finally ring at the Met without the pressure and expense of full stagings.
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Even by the high standards of the best recent stagings of Cunningham's work, the dance level of this Lyon production was inspiring.
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But in doing what birds do best on Tuesday night, the owl has apparently written itself out of future stagings of the play.
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As Amy goes through careful stagings and impersonations to finesse her revenge against her husband, it's also hard not to think of Vertigo.
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Several new stagings at leading playhouses throughout the German-speaking world show what can happen when American classic drama meets European theater practice.
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For more than a generation, the Metropolitan Opera has presented a series of genuinely dreadful "Don Giovanni" stagings: overproduced, silly, illogical and unmusical.
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Schwartzel, 34, has played in the past four stagings of the biennial event against the United States, finishing on the losing side each time.
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Co-productions allow companies to pool costs; Mr. Gelb said that they also allow stagings to be fine-tuned before they reach New York.
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Each show is directed by a downtown experimentalist — "Oklahoma!" by Daniel Fish and "Hadestown" by Rachel Chavkin — and, as unconventional stagings, had unconventional journeys.
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Death of Classical is one of a number of music companies that have experimented with non-traditional opera stagings over the past 10 years.
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Abounding in sensuous melodies, sprightly meters, lavish colors, it's the main reason "Raymonda" keeps being revived, either in full-length stagings or one-act abridgments.
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Modern stagings that present Wagner's flawed hero, the god Wotan, as if he were the chief executive of the Valhalla Corporation have become almost commonplace.
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The American premiere in 2016, directed by Peter Sellars, made it a white-robed rite; other stagings have brought out dark clowning in the piece.
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But if the originals rarely get commercial stagings, their descendants are everywhere this season, packing an ancient yet topical punch and collecting Tony Award nominations.
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NBC Opera Theater, a TV series that broadcast live opera stagings, had chosen Ms. Price to sing the title role of Puccini's "Tosca" in 1955.
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The Americans, who have lost the event only once in 12 stagings, are favored over an International team that has also been hit by injury.
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Now from St. Petersburg, Russia, comes "The Pygmalion Effect" by the choreographer Boris Eifman, known for his maximalist and often quirky stagings of well-known stories.
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Critics sometimes reproached Mr. Zeffirelli's opera stagings for a flamboyant glamour more typical of Hollywood's golden era, while Hollywood sometimes disparaged his films as too highbrow.
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As the artistic director of Transport Group, he is known for minimalist, or essentialist, stagings, like an endearing unisex version of "I Remember Mama" in 2014.
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Impresarios still throng the festival, but these days they are checking out stars and also stagings — which are increasingly co-productions, shared among several opera companies.
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The white-brick set (by Christian Schmidt) echoes the looming, anonymous structures that Richard Peduzzi designed for Patrice Chéreau's classic opera stagings, but without Peduzzian ominousness.
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Early stagings of his that once shocked — as when he set Richard Strauss's "Elektra" in an abattoir in the 1970s — would hardly raise an eyebrow now.
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The actors in this puppet musical will probably use both terms, as Teatro SEA, the producing organization, specializes in bilingual stagings of Latino theater for children.
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The Wooster Group, a nonprofit that often funds its projects by touring, said a prohibition against future stagings of "The Room" would cause a significant financial loss.
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Mr. Gelb said that he had been impressed by Mr. McVicar's ability to draw great acting from his singers, his versatility and the clarity of his stagings.
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In both stagings, people panicked and ran for the door, while one woman even fainted, as Trollstation's fifth member filmed the other four engaged in the hijinks.
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In pared-back stagings of "Sweeney Todd" and "The Color Purple," to name just two, he has shown us what is essential by removing everything that isn't.
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Most of the singers wore costumes; using elaborate projections, by 59 Productions, Mr. Crouch created scenic designs that evoked imagery from notable past and current Met stagings.
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A number of his other productions have been seen at the Met, including stagings of Bellini's "Norma" and "Il Pirata," Handel's "Giulio Cesare" and Donizetti's "L'Elisir d'Amore."
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Old interviews with Cunningham and his myriad collaborators (including John Cage and Robert Rauschenberg) are combined with contemporary re-stagings of 14 of his pieces from this period.
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The U.S., led by unbeaten Dustin Johnson and Phil Mickelson, prevailed 19-11 to claim the cup for the 10th time in 12 stagings of the biennial event.
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While Mr. Hunter had always conceived of a combined evening, both "Lewiston" (which similarly features some of Meriwether Lewis's relatives) and "Clarkston" received individual regional stagings in 2016.
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Despite dismay at some stagings, and concern with a paucity of vocal quality even in this Wagnerian heartland, I came back enthused, electrified — evangelical, one might say. Why?
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One thing was certain: He didn't have much appetite to return to the opera house, as he discovered when he involved himself in some stagings of his work.
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The Americans now have 11 wins and a tie from 13 stagings of the biennial event, and will no doubt start favourites in Charlotte, North Carolina in 2021.
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Video games have come to own certain stagings and dynamics by culturally dominating them, by embracing them more than films have, and by taking them to culturally ubiquitous places.
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"Love Is Blind" eventually reminded me of a tired revival of one of Franco Zeffirelli's decades-old, hyper-naturalistic stagings for the Metropolitan Opera: all surface detail, no life.
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Still, he designs his portraits collaboratively with his subjects, and the strong color and crisp shooting mostly honor them, especially the close-up frames that dispense with dreamlike stagings.
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During a long weekend this month, I saw revivals of Mr. Kosky's comedic stagings of Oscar Straus operettas that had been largely neglected before he brought them to the Komische.
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Those who are demanding a return to traditional stagings should ask themselves what kind of social message is being sent when such a scenario becomes a vehicle for opulent nostalgia.
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The season features new stagings of the medieval morality play "Everyman"; Shostakovich's tragic opera, "Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District"; and Verdi's "I Due Foscari," about Italian nobles brought low.
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David McVicar's well-traveled production dates back to Brussels in 2000, but it is also one of this house standby's more interventionist stagings, and should be particularly vivid opening Feb.
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And I saw him in other landmark Sellars stagings: Mozart's "Le Nozze di Figaro," set in Trump Tower in New York, and "Così Fan Tutte," moved to a roadside diner.
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And now that these groups are taking their grievances offline and onto the mainstream streets of Berkeley, dismissing their activities as simply IRL stagings of Twitter fights trivializes what's really going on.
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Along with the Mark Morris Archive, which will painstakingly preserve dances for future stagings, there is the expansion of the center itself, including the addition of three studios to the existing seven.
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The show has been honed through a student production at Sheridan, at two musical-theater festivals and in professional stagings in Seattle, San Diego and Washington, D.C. The crowds were wildly enthusiastic.
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MOSCOW — Two of the world's most important opera companies, the Metropolitan Opera in New York and the Bolshoi Theater here, will collaborate on three stagings in coming years, they announced on Monday.
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As with most later stagings of Petipa, they were loosely based on the original — Balanchine made up his own steps, "in the style of" Petipa — but none made any claim of authenticity.
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Harry Kupfer, a German opera director whose inventive and often provocative stagings of Wagner masterpieces put him in the vanguard of a generation that sought to reinterpret the canon, died on Dec.
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His eerily realistic stagings of mundane environments (other works have conjured elevators and hair salons) are designed to catch viewers off guard as they blur the line between art and everyday life.
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Nearly 30 years ago, William Christie and his ensemble, Les Arts Florissants, began a revelatory series of "tragédies en musique" productions that toured internationally, including several stagings at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.
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But the orchestration had been heavily altered — new instruments, and divisi lines added to the violin parts — and the ending was rewritten to be tragic, a tradition that continues with most stagings today.
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When the play had subsequent stagings at the drama school and then, in 1974, at Yale Repertory Theater, a young actress in the class behind the two authors', Ms. Streep, took the role.
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While Mr. Kentridge's projected images move quickly across the stage, the resulting effect is more than mere flash; his filmmaking chops bring to life aspects of this opera that other stagings breeze past.
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It lacks the book's satirical crackle, but a handful of sharp performances break through the stagings, notably Kristen Stewart's (as the title character's sister) and Garrett Hedlund's (as one of his commanding officers).
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NBC found some success with live stagings of The Sound of Music and Peter Pan, but a lot of the people watching seemed to be doing so specifically to heckle the productions on Twitter.
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He has long been John Adams's key partner on both librettos and stagings, and has also been a frequent collaborator with Kaija Saariaho, whose "L'Amour de Loin" arrives at the Metropolitan Opera this fall.
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Bartlett Sher, seemingly the Met's go-to guy for new stagings, directs a production that has already been to Salzburg and La Scala, and which is conducted here by the reliably fiery Gianandrea Noseda.
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"Looking again at LeWitt's wittily concise instructions, I realized they read, without modification, as movement directives," says Levine, who has been interpreting modern and postmodern visual artworks as scores in her series Re-stagings.
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In Germany, a country with a robust and unparalleled ensemble theater tradition supported by lavish government subsidies, it is not uncommon to find over a dozen new stagings a season at any given playhouse.
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The Vienna State Opera and the Teatro alla Scala in Milan both still use Zeffirelli stagings from 1963, and the Bavarian State Opera in Munich continues to present an Otto Schenk one from 1969.
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AT 215 HOURS 230 MINUTES 22 SECONDS There have been many dreamlike stagings of Debussy's "Pelléas et Mélisande," but few as nightmarish as Barrie Kosky's spare production, currently running at the Komische Oper in Berlin.
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He might justify his relentless attention to the visuals, at the expense of a deep reading of this rich text, as a post-ideological reaction to politically charged "Ring" stagings of the past half century.
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The Wooster Group's director, Elizabeth LeCompte, in several stagings of the work had the beautiful and reckless actress Kate Valk play Brutus in blackface, pronouncing all the "de"s and "dem"s of O'Neill's lines.
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Rather than a roster of stagings spread throughout the season, with big gaps in between, the company has grouped six productions into a 12-day, 31-performance festival that is currently sprawling across the city.
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This is a first for Ryden, who had no previous experience with theater design save for the dioramas in his "Gay 230s" series, which came with backdrops, stagings, props, costumes, and even miniature light switches.
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It's fortunate, then, that his centennial year closes out with a documentary that's in 3-D, and that — through a combination of archival footage and contemporary stagings for the screen — showcases the breadth of Cunningham's career.
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Mr. Giddins calls the film "a Rosetta stone of early American pop," emphasizing that the musicians were "all top professionals," and pointing out that Mr. Anderson's elaborate stagings anticipate the production numbers associated with Busby Berkeley.
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Other go-to directors of the Gelb era, who have put their stamp on the repertory with semi-traditional stagings, include Bartlett Sher, the Broadway director, and Richard Eyre, who comes out of the British theater.
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And any of its spring seasons show at least two dissimilar stylistic interpretations of the 19th-century choreography of Marius Petipa (1818-1910), with Mr. Ratmansky's stagings contributing an important if controversial notion of period idiom.
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The Koblenz production of "Atomic" follows an acclaimed 2014 production in Karlsruhe, by the American director Yuval Sharon; by 2020 there will have been four new German stagings of "Nixon in China" in as many years.
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Mr. Guth, acclaimed for stylized, even surreal productions that nevertheless remain moored to reality, hadn't thought his style was a good match for Puccini, and he didn't like the clichés about artists endemic to "Bohème" stagings.
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Hopefully the caliber of new operas will rise, too: In addition to Mr. Ruders's merely polite piece, I've covered underwhelming first stagings of "Cold Mountain" and "The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs" here in recent years.
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"I think it started really 10 or so years ago, in the aftermath of the financial crisis," says Eric Einhorn, the artistic director of New York's On Site Opera, which specializes in site-specific opera stagings.
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The U.S. lead the event 14-1/2 to 3-1/2 and are almost certain to record their 10th victory in 12 stagings of the event on Sunday, but Spieth believed the event was still relevant.
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Although some of the stagings of modern interiors in the exhibition involve only a few pieces of furniture, they do suggest the depth of MoMA's interior holdings, which aren't frequently on view in the space-strapped museum.
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When Ms. Kent, in future seasons, can make her company a vehicle for important new choreography as well as for revivals of the caliber of these Tudor and Ashton stagings, she will have made it world class.
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Played with mellow disbelief and sung with parched, wounded tone by the baritone Matthias Goerne, the title character doesn't start off, as he does in many stagings (and often by Mr. Goerne), as a wild-eyed lunatic.
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Among the winners were his stagings of Yasmina Reza's "God of Carnage," named best play in 2009, and of Arthur Miller's "Death of a Salesman," starring Philip Seymour Hoffman, named best revival of a play in 2012.
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But the nature of musicals is such that high-caliber performances of sung material can be achieved much more quickly than satisfying stagings, and as the productions have grown more ambitious, the achievement has sometimes felt shallower.
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Not since a 1996 touring production of "The Bacchae" by Euripides has Mr. Chen directed a work for the Chinese public, although he has done private stagings in China and drawn on Chinese talent for his global productions.
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At the other are fans of concept-driven regietheater, German for "director's theater," who welcome radical, provocative reinterpretations that can bear little resemblance to the libretto, and who dismiss traditional stagings as stodgy re-enactments that lack dramatic vitality.
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While the average late night TV performance tends toward the soporific, the A$AP crew has always treated a televised appearance as the high-profile occasion that it is, putting together elaborate stagings and costumes worthy of the occasion.
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But to keep a semblance of normalcy in his family life, Mr. Kaufmann said that he no longer wants to travel to the United States for new stagings, which can take six weeks or more to rehearse and perform.
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As with photographic postcard imagery of well-traveled sites, Warren's stagings of tranquil collegiate vistas represent the beginnings of a robust if now well-worn tradition: the elite college experience pitched as a picturesque retreat enhanced by the blandishments of nature.
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Asked about provocative opera stagings in general, he expressed his admiration for the musical savvy of Stefan Herheim and Dmitri Tcherniakov and lamented egotists who "are not talented, or not informed," but declined to put Mr. Laufenberg's work in either category.
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The choreographer Liz Gerring, known for her stark yet sensual stagings, illustrates this point in "(T)here to (T)here," an ensemble piece for six dancers that focuses on a central pair who come together and grow apart throughout the work.
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Esparza, dressed in street clothes, wears none of the garish makeup that has come to be associated with Brecht stagings, and it is thrilling to watch his mobile face shift with protean speed from clownish indulgence to fury to deceptive vacuity.
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In these stagings and others, Mr. Herheim acts as an operatic locavore: cooking with what he finds around him, blending the stories of the works at hand with the history and atmosphere of the places in which his audiences consume them.
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It's worth remembering, too, that the same play brought to grief at least two of Mr. Norris's predecessors as artistic director of the National, Peter Hall and Richard Eyre, whose stagings were met with lukewarm reviews, albeit 15 years apart.
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New stagings of "Don Giovanni," by Ivo van Hove for the Paris Opera, and "Rigoletto," by Bartlett Sher for the Berlin State Opera, recently premiered in Europe; they are co-productions with the Met that will travel there in future seasons.
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By the early 20163s, he had made a name for himself doing what he called "pretty aggressively modern" stagings of Shakespeare, Molière and other classics at American regional theaters, but increasingly found that his work and the audience were parting ways.
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" He had more substantial roles onstage, including a part in the short-lived Broadway musical "Mail" in 1988 and one of the lead roles, the mystery writer Andrew Wyke, in three different West Coast stagings of Anthony Shaffer's thriller "Sleuth.
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The Public's stagings of Shakespeare follow the tradition of most professional productions of the Bard's work, which honor the magnitude of Shakespeare's accomplishments by using staging clues to draw connections between his plays and contemporary movements in politics and culture.
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Still, Mr. Gelb reserves the right to tweak the Zeffirelli stagings, as he has for this revival of the 1981 "Bohème": The patterned scrim that Zeffirelli deployed to soften the look of the snow-swept scene in Act III has been removed.
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A new production of Mozart's "Don Giovanni" directed by Ivo van Hove, who has led fierce Broadway stagings of "A View From the Bridge" and "The Crucible," will be a highlight of the Paris Opera's ambitious 33-19 season, announced late Monday.
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"Change is hard, especially for people who are older," said Betty Schaeffer of Rochester, who has been coming with her husband for 31 years and had seen two previous festival stagings of "Saint Joan" before this year's streamlined production, directed by Mr. Carroll.
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Instead, however, let's say that the stagings of Anthony Tudor's "Jardin aux Lilas" (1936) and Frederick Ashton's "The Dream" (1964) bring her company to peaks that could be admired anywhere, although the world premiere of Ethan Stiefel's "Frontier" proved a pleasantly bland nonstarter.
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Despite being choreographed here for New York City Ballet and despite brief-lived stagings by that company, American Ballet Theater and School of American Ballet in the last 35 years, this has become one of the Balanchine classics least known in this city.
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I have seen stagings of the cycle, but I have never seen a performance more theatrical than the one the German baritone Benjamin Appl gave, without any props at all, on Thursday in the Park Avenue Armory's intimate Board of Officers Room.
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Small opera might sound like an oxymoron to people whose idea of the art form is rooted in stagings of Wagner's "Ring" cycle or Verdi's "Aida" as Cecil B. DeMille-worthy spectacles with huge orchestras, big choruses, legions of spear carriers and even large animals.
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The choreographer Liz Gerring, known for her stark yet sensual stagings, illustrates this point in her new work "(T)here to (T)here," an ensemble piece for six dancers that focuses on a central pair who come together and grow apart throughout the work.
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Mr. Audi's production, which originated at the Dutch National Opera in 2013, uses airy sets by George Tsypin, a sculptor and architect with whom he has worked on many of his signature stagings, including a critically acclaimed "Ring" cycle that opened in Amsterdam in 1997.
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The director, François Girard, has directed only a single opera at the Met, a vivid, sensitive version of Wagner's "Parsifal" that was introduced here in 2013 and revived in 2018, but was one of the most acclaimed stagings of Mr. Gelb's 14-year tenure.
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The stagings I saw, a "Tristan" whose first-act ship was represented by a series of Escher-like stairways, and a "Götterdämmerung" with a climactic scene in front of the New York Stock Exchange, would have been unrecognizable to audiences of a century ago.
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The broad success and reach of Mr. Sylvan's performances — Mr. Sellars's Mozart stagings toured widely and were broadcast internationally, and the Adams operas, which Mr. Sylvan performed in multiple cities, were made into acclaimed recordings — did not change his modest, focused approach to his career.
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Opening Ceremony, no stranger to out-of-the-box stagings for its fashion shows (see: a play on the stage of the Met; a troupe of falling dancers) present a "Pageant of the People," starring Whoopi Goldberg, Rosario Dawson, Natasha Lyonne, Rowan Blanchard and Rashida Jones.
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In 2012, Michael Cohl, the veteran rock promoter, came on as a producer, and helped to hire its director, Mr. Scheib, a professor of theater at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who is better known for his experimental, mixed-media stagings of drama, opera and ballet.
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Rainer unfolds these themes with an incisively imaginative approach to Jenny's recollections, which she analyzes prismatically, with a gleefully diverse array of cinematic devices—voice-overs, fantasylike stagings on a half-finished movie set, interviews with fictional characters, texts posted on the screen of an early-generation Apple computer.
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On the theatrical front, next up is a new stage version of "Fantastic Mr. Fox," adapted by Sam Holcroft with music by Arthur Darvill, which is scheduled to have its premiere this fall at the Nuffield Theater in Southampton, England and then has scheduled stagings at other theaters.
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Her work is often politically pointed, her casts and crews strikingly diverse, and her stagings athletic — many of her shows, including "Hadestown," feature moments of intense exuberance that she connects to her affection for '80s D.C. hard core punk, and a desire to counter her own tendency for intellectualism.
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While his stagings are intensely musical — during "Pelléas" rehearsal, in which he was a busy, perfectionist presence, one was struck by the sheer number of scores in use, by the precision with which the singers' movements were tied to the sense of the notes — they are vertiginously complex.
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But while Britain has gone all out to fete Shakespeare, with a yearlong slate of high-profile events, readings, concerts and stagings of his plays, Spanish officials have been accused of not doing enough to promote Cervantes, whose "Don Quixote" is considered to be a foundational text of modern fiction.
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While he said that some of his work relied more heavily on unusual stagings or metaphors — including his "Giulio Cesare" at the Met and a production of Strauss's "Salome" at the Royal Opera House in London that was inspired by the harrowing Pasolini film "Salò" — he generally favored a less obtrusive approach.
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Boosey & Hawkes, Mr. Adams's publisher, say that there has been a spike in interest in his operas in Germany: The number of Adams stagings there from 22017 to 2020 is equal to the total number of productions in the quarter-century after the 1989 German premiere of "Nixon in China," his first opera.
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Even there, showing no interest in aping the innovative operatic stagings put on by the Cleveland Orchestra or the New York Philharmonic, he has stuck to concert performances, none of which — not even his formidable if noncommittal accounts of Wagner — have come close to a sensational "Elektra" at Carnegie Hall four years ago.
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I saw both stagings on the same day and they are neatly twinned, the director Christopher Luscombe setting the plays on either side of World War I so that it makes particular sense at the beginning of "Much Ado" when that play's men are said to have just returned home from combat.
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Glass throwing is hardly rare in "Traviata" stagings — the Met's last production also had its Violetta hurl one against a wall during "Sempre libera" — but Mr. Nézet-Séguin said he was dismayed by how much noise there was on the Met's stage these days, in ways that could distract from the music.
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Mr. Kupfer came of age among a generation of post-World War II German directors who embraced Regietheater ("director's theater"), an approach that jettisoned old production traditions and devised new stagings that often changed the settings of classic works and reimagined some of their plots, with an eye toward contemporary social and political resonances.
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Before Broadway, Come from Away fine-tuned its emotional tale with out-of-town tryouts and stagings — including stops at Canada's Sheridan College, the Goodspeed musical festival in Connecticut, the National Alliance for Musical Theater in New York, the La Jolla Playhouse in California, the Seattle Repertory Theater in Washington, the Ford's Theater in Washington, D.C., and the Royal Alexandra Theater in Toronto.
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" With a troupe of South African performers, Mr. Kentridge blocked out scenes from this bleak tale of a soldier driven to madness and murder — whose setting he was updating to the years around World War I, when it was written, through the hand-drawn animations and low-tech costumes that Metropolitan Opera audiences have seen in his stagings of Berg's "Lulu" and Shostakovich's "The Nose.
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"It's best drunk the local way with sugar and evaporated milk or with condensed milk," she tells CNBC Make It. Tan also says Singapore has a buzzing theater scene with local companies like Wild Rice, Pangdemonium and the Singapore Repertory Theatre presenting a diverse range of high quality productions, from edgy, thought-provoking new writing and soci-political dramas, to re-imagined stagings of world classics and Broadway musicals.
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In recent years, Gold has directed productions of "Hamlet" and Tennessee Williams's " The Glass Menagerie ," among other works, and the most disturbing aspect of both of those stagings was Gold's apparent belief that he was somehow elevating, or liberating, the actors: more than mere players, they were participants in an exclusive think tank, a world in which the playwright's intentions—laid out in all those annoying stage directions—could be jettisoned in the name of creative freedom.
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During the past 11 years he has made the Aix festival — which runs through July 24 — feel more connected: to young artists, whom it has assiduously fostered; to new work, which it has commissioned in quantity and quality; to the operatic canon, which it has refreshed with provocative stagings and musical visions; to new audiences; and to its Mediterranean region, which it has celebrated with forays into North African and Middle Eastern styles without seeming patronizing.
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