Sydney, Australia — In its new production of Mozart's "The Marriage of Figaro," Opera Australia shows how a classic work can be reset in the modern world without violating the spirit of the original.
By way of contrast, the company's revival of Puccini's "Turandot" represents a triumph of the traditional, taking a fairy tale of ancient China on its own terms and bringing it to life through dazzling stagecraft.
In seeking to make Mozart's bittersweet comedy accessible to as broad an audience as possible, director Benedict Andrews (using an English translation by Jeremy Sams) has updated the action from an 18th century Spanish castle to a modern-day gated estate. Figaro is now a uniformed security guard, and his boss, Count Almaviva, a bored one-percenter who is first glimpsed watching TV while plotting to seduce Figaro's fiancee, Susanna.
Aided by Ralph Myers' set – a series of white boxes representing...
By way of contrast, the company's revival of Puccini's "Turandot" represents a triumph of the traditional, taking a fairy tale of ancient China on its own terms and bringing it to life through dazzling stagecraft.
In seeking to make Mozart's bittersweet comedy accessible to as broad an audience as possible, director Benedict Andrews (using an English translation by Jeremy Sams) has updated the action from an 18th century Spanish castle to a modern-day gated estate. Figaro is now a uniformed security guard, and his boss, Count Almaviva, a bored one-percenter who is first glimpsed watching TV while plotting to seduce Figaro's fiancee, Susanna.
Aided by Ralph Myers' set – a series of white boxes representing...
- 3/11/2012
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