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FROM AROUND THE WORLD: MELBOURNE.(Review)
Director Barrie Kosky is the Peter Sellars of Australia, trying to be outrageous at any cost and occasionally hitting the right spot -- perhaps accidentally. He was the center of attention of Opera Australia's new production of Wozzeck (seen Nov. 11), no matter how much one admired the conducting of Gabor Otvos and a surprisingly powerful cast.
For once, updating made no difference at all. In Kosky's staging, the Captain became a police officer and the Drum Major a fireman. The beer garden was turned into an overblown version of a street scene at Mardi Gras, with a massed chorus and extras, including children in fancy dress, hundreds of balloons, sparkling coils and streamers obscuring the stage band supposedly at its center.
The orchestra occupied the back area of the stage, the conductor initially more visible than Wozzeck or the Captain. The action took place on a large apron over the pit itself. A constant flow of flats, decorated with expressionistic images, rose from the stage to reflect the growing madness of a simple-minded Wozzeck, who in the end ...
- Wozzeck. (Broadcast of February 22, 1997)(includes related articles)
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- Magazine article from: Opera News Freeman, John W. May 1, 1997 700+ words
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- Magazine article from: Opera News Boutwell, Jane August 1, 1997 700+ words
...acting was naturalistic. Dohmen's Wozzeck seemed an honorable if dense man...opportunist (her seduction by the Drum Major ends with the two of them rolling...provided a sympathetic portrait of Wozzeck's only real friend. Aage Haugland...
- Wozzeck.(Metropolitan Opera, New York, NY)
- Magazine article from: TCI Lampert-Greaux, Ellen April 1, 1997 700+ words
...Ingalls, who was part of the Wozzeck team from the beginning...needs to be evocative to follow Wozzeck's downward spiral." The...doorways. In an encounter between Wozzeck's lover Marie and an army drum major, a blast of HMI light bounces...
