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1/ #YouKeepUsingThatWord “production,” what does it mean? Operas, like movies and plays, need directors and set designers. They can be same person, as when Zeffirelli directed opera, or a team, like @MetOpera’s great Nat Merrill/Bob O’Hearn.
2/ Director ≠ conductor. Latter is responsible for the orchestra. When Wieland Wagner (composer’s grandson), as director, developed the “neo-Bayreuth” style at that Festival in ‘50s, some said his austere stage pictures and tight, Greek-drama-style character movements were....
3/ out of step with the yearning romantic style of Bayreuth’s conductors if that era (all of whom btw inexplicably had surnames that started with K). Well, director & conductor can have diff esthetics; that’s ok. But maybe this is why, when Bayreuth planned....
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