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July 29, 2004
Via Arts Journal, a refreshing non-critic’s take on the Bolshoi Ballet’s disastrously received new ”Romeo and Juliet”:
“It is justly remarked that opera and ballet are elitist art forms, not least because their audiences are required to pay fantastic sums of money - if judged against average earnings - to attend them. A serious moment of truth in my own life came when I stopped editing newspapers, and had to start paying for my own tickets. Because we love ballet and opera, we keep going pretty frequently.
But gosh, it can be hard when a producer and director throw in the audience's faces not only a turkey, but a production that anyone in his senses could have seen a mile off, before the first night, was going to flap and crash like that bird. More often than not, prize turkeys involve misbegotten attempts to put old wine into new, or rather modern-dress, bottles.”
Posted by Rachel at July 29, 2004 12:44 PM
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