1/ Getting to like this opera more, partly bc of the @vaopera and @azopera perfs I’ve mentioned in previous ONEGIN posts, partly bc of this one, shown earlier as part of Hvorostovsky Week. “Hvor” - “Dima” - raised the artistic level of everything he was in; and, under Gergiev,
https://twitter.com/metopera/status/1373396440052011016
2/ with Fleming and Vargas, this lineup from 2007 was set up to show this opera at its best. Mixed reviews, gen’ly favorable, for Carsen’s production, which mixes abstract sets - or rather, no sets: the null set! - with highly traditional costumes and props (those autumn leaves
3/ in Act I). Quick, curtainless scene changes keep the story moving along, esp when a crew of Met dressers, themselves in costume, swarm Hvor at the end of the duel scene, take off a high percentage of his clothes, and suit him up in white tie for the scene at the Gremins’.
Btw I’m switching to Roman numerals for act numbers. I’ve been using Arabics to save “characters,” but I’ve seen recent stories about how ppl can’t read Roman numerals any more, and that just has to stop, so henceforth it’ll be Acts I & II, not Acts 1 & 2, etc.
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