The first "material girl"? Wów, what an actress, and great singer!! She has it all; decadent, power, madness, sensuality, morbide, mpervert; all in one, and what a voice!!! See the final.........
This was the worst part of the Jurgen Flimm production, that also featured a good share of non-acting from Siegfried Jerusalem as Herod, who phoned in the part the night I was in the house. Gergiev's conducting though was not half as sterile - and clipped -as at the 2008 revival - evident here. The Varone dude who did the ersatz-Dietrich choreography for the dance was the same idiot who did the fey air=ballet for royal Hunt and Storm in Les Troyens. i should have been wary. in fact, i was.
The Herod is awful. Sounds like Burl Ives (Frosty the Snowman) under the effect of sleeping pills. No fire, no lechery, voice compeletly underpowered...all in the name of "tastefull"...just like all the "operatic-keepers-of-the-flame" and the "musicologist-types" love and want it to be. Musically he is all over the shop. If you don't believe me, get the score, go to the piano and check it out.jeez
I loved Mattila as Salome in this production. I have always insisted that Herod has a knack for throwing the most boring parties ever, they are always empty (except for the Götz Friedrich film production with Stratas)!!! I believe it is a great mistake from the directors to have so few characters on stage on what it supposed to be the Tetrarc's birthday party, he was a political figure at the time and those parties are always full, particularly of brown nosers. I also did not like the puritanical edition of the Met in this case, where one knows that Salome is in the nude and they cut it off, to make it more "family friendly" as Peter Gelb said in an interview, even as a child I am used to see Salome in the nude (with some fortunate exceptions I must say) at the end of the dance of the seven veils.
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Fabulous performance!
This gave me LIFE!!
The first "material girl"? Wów, what an actress, and great singer!! She has it all; decadent, power, madness, sensuality, morbide, mpervert; all in one, and what a voice!!! See the final.........
J'adore Karita Mattila, mais quelle hideuse production !
This was the worst part of the Jurgen Flimm production, that also featured a good share of non-acting from Siegfried Jerusalem as Herod, who phoned in the part the night I was in the house. Gergiev's conducting though was not half as sterile - and clipped -as at the 2008 revival - evident here. The Varone dude who did the ersatz-Dietrich choreography for the dance was the same idiot who did the fey air=ballet for royal Hunt and Storm in Les Troyens. i should have been wary. in fact, i was.
This herod was objectively awful. But Karita Mattila is a goddess !
The Herod is awful. Sounds like Burl Ives (Frosty the Snowman) under the effect of sleeping pills. No fire, no lechery, voice compeletly underpowered...all in the name of "tastefull"...just like all the "operatic-keepers-of-the-flame" and the "musicologist-types" love and want it to be. Musically he is all over the shop. If you don't believe me, get the score, go to the piano and check it out.jeez
If Karita Mattila had been 15 years younger...
I loved Mattila as Salome in this production. I have always insisted that Herod has a knack for throwing the most boring parties ever, they are always empty (except for the Götz Friedrich film production with Stratas)!!! I believe it is a great mistake from the directors to have so few characters on stage on what it supposed to be the Tetrarc's birthday party, he was a political figure at the time and those parties are always full, particularly of brown nosers.
I also did not like the puritanical edition of the Met in this case, where one knows that Salome is in the nude and they cut it off, to make it more "family friendly" as Peter Gelb said in an interview, even as a child I am used to see Salome in the nude (with some fortunate exceptions I must say) at the end of the dance of the seven veils.