Opera Australia. Benjamin Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream (2010) [Dir. Baz Luhrmann].
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Dear god, I love this. Of course as a Luhrmann opera production I have to love it, but a post-colonially discursive staging of this (rather middle-class) opera: brilliant. The other of the faeries figured, re-presented as the other of the oriental. It is like something out of A Passage to India. I do however wish the descant of the children’s chorus were brought out more.
There is something of the Heideggerian disavowal of the scientific, of the techne as the “mechanics” in Shakespeare’s text I think.
Britten, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1960), Act III: “Now until the break of day”
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Opera Australia. Benjamin Britten’s...(2010) [Dir. Baz Luhrmann].
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