White Shirt Monday: Shirts and Sheets
[ Count Rofrano (Sarah Connolly), white shirt, and Princess Werdenberg (Amanda Roocroft), no shirt, deciding to stay in. Strauss, "Der Rosenkavalier". ENO, London 2012]
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Does anyone mind my photo-quoting this production two weeks in a row?
…does anyone actually listen to me this time around? I guess not.
Well, it’s not as if I had much more to say than that *I* would stay in, too, given the circumstances, and for the entire week!
Instead, I’ll be out on a congress (the Assyrians are calling), but I should be back in time for the next White Shirt Monday.
Meanwhile, the ENO “Rosenkavalier” is still running Feb. 17th, 24th and 27th, at 6:30 p.m. each. For all those of us who aren’t quite so lucky to own tickets (some are still available!), there’s at least the video trailer (thank you, ENO), featuring also the above moment in more detail:
A bit of gender bending opera in the audience’s native language? What’s not accessible about that??? Go ENO!!!
Apologies to the language purists, but I’m all for making the artform more accessible to all, even if I don’t like how it’s been done, someone else out there might like it…
I do hope they have made a DVD of this. I have been waiting a long time for a Connolly Rosenkavalier. I wait with baited breath!
Looking at that trailer, one might think that ENO is primarily attended by young, pretty girls. I’m sad to tell you it isn’t. But full marks for enterprise, dear marketing team, anyway.
This production is really wonderful, and between the pair of them, Tomlinson and Connolly own it.
darn… I thought it worthwhile to make the trip to London to mix with such a young pretty crowd at ENO shows. ;-p
One is often perplexed at how much clothes the Marschallin is wearing in the opening scene. Given the sort of clothing often associated with such a setting from time immemorial and the accompanying dramatic imperatives one would think some minimally creative directors somewhere would have the Furstin von Wendenberg appropriately dressed (or undressed, as it were) for the occasion. This is a fine start and let us hope it is followed with some regularity.
Fine “example” … and yet one that leaves much room to be explored.
I saw the last performance too. It was even better. Poppea from Barcelona is out on 24th March. No DVD of ENO Rosenkavalier unfortunately.
Good luck with the job.