http://northings.com/2011/05/06/die-fledermaus-2/ Cultural magazine for the Highlands and Islands of Scotland Fri, 22 Jul 2016 10:39:52 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.38 http://northings.com/2011/05/06/die-fledermaus-2/comment-page-1/#comment-944 Tue, 10 May 2011 11:30:03 +0000 http://northings.com/?p=14978#comment-944 My family of three generations watched the Eden Court Performance,My teenage boys were “embarassed” and “laughed out loud” at this centuries old farce. My wife and I were surprised to enjoy a bit of light relief that was welcome in these dark times, and her parents revelled in the lack of political correctness shown.Well done to Opera Della Luna for bringing an Operetta to the masses. Ces’t La Vie.

]]> http://northings.com/2011/05/06/die-fledermaus-2/comment-page-1/#comment-941 Mon, 09 May 2011 09:23:02 +0000 http://northings.com/?p=14978#comment-941 I’m just back from a holiday in Berlin where I saw a production of the other Strauss’s ‘Salome’ which was updated to the present, had the ‘Dance of the Seven Veils’ replaced by a phantasmagoria of shocking/abusrd/political tableaux, and ended with Salome not dead, but off to lead the revolution! What this did was make me realise how much of Strauss’s (and Wilde’s) original is of dubious content in these very different times. Likewise, Scottish Opera’s updated ‘Die Fledermaus’ of a few years ago, set in a very recognisable glitzy Glasgow, brought home to me the real nastiness of the original, otherwise cloaked by all the overlaid nostalgia of opera cloaks, waltzes, champagne flutes. So, sometimes updating pays off”

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