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'This unceasingly wonderful "Ariadne" was Covent Garden opera
at its most scintillating, from the first (and astonishing)
visual coup near the start, when designer Herbert Murauer, having
established Christopher Quest's gloriously meticulous Major Domo
in his plush entry hall, ratchets up the entire stage -- yes,
as with "Sophie's Choice", the Covent Garden machinery, so doomed
in Haitink's opening "Falstaff", worked a treat -- to reveal a
locker room basement below, in which the hapless singers and
actors huddle in suitably shapeless -- but terrifically well
plotted -- melees, scattered round the set like melancholy
cast-off props. The opera never really looked back from that
moment: all else was plain (Aegean) sailing.'
Roderic Dunnett writes in today's illustrated Sunday feature at Music &
Vision:
http://www.mvdaily.com/articles/2002/12/ariadne1.htm?a
Keith Bramich
Technical editor, Music & Vision
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