The opera world is split in two: Some European productions reinvent works in ways composers never imagined, and traditional stagings favored in the U.S. are condemned by cognoscenti.
are shown in the background. The banquet ends when a baby doll is served on a silver platter of parsley and apples. Macbeth is wheelchair-bound for the final act after a witch injures his leg by plunging knitting needles into a voodoo doll. Lady Macduff poisons more than three dozen children with spiked drinks at a movie theater and their lifeless bodies are arrayed across the front of the stage.
Kušej looks at the gun-toting Almavivas and their servants as a mob family in a W-like hotel designed by Raimund Orfeo Voigt, in sharp contemporary costumes by Alan Hranitelj. The Count and Figaro snort during the overture, the Countess pops pills while swigging from a wine bottle, Susanna sips a cocktail along with a capsule and Basilio shoots up. Basilio is a priest instead of a music teacher and the gardener Antonio is homeless.
“Porgi, amor ” opens the second act with the Countess staring at Gustave Courbet’s 1866 painting “L’Origine du monde” while a naked woman sits in the adjacent bathtub. The Count sings “Vedrò, mentr’io sospiro ” while a prostitute wearing only panties dresses him, earning a wad of cash. The household assembles, many wearing headphones, to dance in a parking lot seven levels below ground ahead of the Susanna-Figaro rooftop wedding.
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