“It’s so dated, it’s so corny, it’s so bad...I just said, wait a minute, first of all, everybody tear that out of your scores." He then spent rehearsals getting dancers to "talk and communicate" to each other rather than perform. He encouraged the singers to converse rather than orate.
And it sounds as though Mr. Morris has adopted a theatrical style that we have already started to embrace for our 2014 premier of Beowulf:
"There are just a few props and no monks’ robes, masks or makeup. No attempt is made to disguise the fact that Mr. Bell is a young man playing an elderly woman."
But that's what the M and P mission has always been: to tell compelling stories in the most powerful way possible. We've done it with Dickens, and Poe, and Verne, and the Sci-Fi masterpiece Aliens. Why try to invent a compelling story when 5 million of them have already been written? Find a good story that illustrates a timeless human condition and tell it a way that makes even the X-Box generation lean forward wanting to know what happens next.
Curlew River is a companion piece to Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas.
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