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Verdi: Rigoletto.
* Schafer, Araya; Alvarez, Gavanelli, Halfvarson; Orch. and Ch. of the Royal Opera, Covent Garden, Downes. Production, McVicar. BBC Opus Arte DVD OA 0830D
Caveat emptor. This is not a Rigoletto for the prim or the literal-minded.
Take the first scene: Verdi specifies festivities in a magnificent hall of the ducal palace in Mantua. We are told that the courtiers should be sumptuously dressed. The controversial Covent Garden production, directed by David McVicar with abstract designs by Michael Vale, gives us a grim, spare unit set, a junkyard on a turntable replete with irregular steps, chain-link fences and corrugated metal walls. The event in progress is nothing less than an equal-opportunity orgy, rather explicitly delineated with plenty of naked flesh.
As the sordid saga progresses, McVicar abandons picturesque raunch in favor of bleak sociopolitical exploration. Along the way, he sustains the inventive courage of his aesthetic convictions. Though hardly definitive, his innovations are illuminating at best, stimulating at worst. The composer's graceful music can't always support the director's grubby images, but a sympathetic observer may find it useful, for once, to do ...
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