If you can’t afford to see it in Sussex, and can’t wait to see it on video, there’s one more way of bringing you and the new Glyndebourne Rosenkavalier together. A live performance conducted by the company’s new music director, Robin Ticciati, is being streamed to cinemas in Edinburgh, Glasgow, and Dundee on 8 June at 4.30, as well as to nearly 90 places in England and Wales. Operatic streaming is becoming one of the best ways of gaining access to major new productions you would otherwise miss, and the fine detail of Richard Jones’s stagecraft here is, by most accounts, something very special. Even Sigmund Freud, complete with couch, makes an appearance.
In Scotland, Jones is remembered for his immature but exuberant Cosi fan tutte for Scottish Opera in which, at the end, everyone danced round a miniature Mount Vesuvius, and for his unfinished, witty strip-cartoon version of Wagner’s Ring. If you want to keep up with his progress, here is a way to do it.
23 May 2014
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