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February 15, 2013 February 15, 2013 The New York Times Replica Edition - The New York Times - 15 Feb 2013 - Page #69 2/15/13 1:14 PM http://nytimes.newspaperdirect.com/epaper/services/OnlinePrintHandler.ashx?issue=83022013021500000000001001&page=69&paper=A3 Page 1 of 1 February 18, 2013 The New York Times Replica Edition - The New York Times - 18 Feb 2013 - Page #30 2/19/13 12:40 PM http://nytimes.newspaperdirect.com/epaper/services/OnlinePrintHandler.ashx?issue=83022013021800000000001001&page=30&paper=A3 Page 1 of 1 The New York Times Replica Edition - The New York Times - 10 Feb 2013 - Page #39 2/12/13 12:10 PM February 10, 2013 The New York Times Replica Edition - The New York Times - 10 Feb 2013 - Page #39 2/12/13 12:10 PM http://nytimes.newspaperdirect.com/epaper/services/OnlinePrintHandler.ashx?issue=83022013021000000000001001&page=39&paper=A3 Page 1 of 1 http://nytimes.newspaperdirect.com/epaper/services/OnlinePrintHandler.ashx?issue=83022013021000000000001001&page=39&paper=A3 Page 1 of 1 February 19, 2013 New Approaches to Themes Sacred and Sexual | Parsifal | Powder Her Face | Opera Reviews by Heidi Waleson - WSJ.com 3/2/13 12:44 PM Dow Jones Reprints: This copy is for your personal, non-commercial use only. To order presentation-ready copies for distribution to your colleagues, clients or customers, use the Order Reprints tool at the bottom of any article or visit www.djreprints.com See a sample reprint in PDF format. Order a reprint of this article now OPERA February 19, 2013, 6:00 p.m. ET New Approaches to Themes Sacred and Sexual By HEIDI WALESON Ken Howard/Metropolitan Opera Director François Girard transports Wagner's final opera to a postapocalyptic period. New York In an imaginative new production of Richard Wagner's "Parsifal" that is perfectly suited to the music, François Girard successfully transforms the opera, which opened at the Metropolitan Opera on Friday, from a faux-Christian rite into a timeless story about a beleaguered community that is held together—barely—by a sacred ritual that is itself under threat. Arresting, consistently absorbing stage pictures expertly follow the mournful flow of this slow-moving epic, while a powerhouse cast of singers and the Met Orchestra under the sure direction of Daniele Gatti http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323495104578312773…ommends&fb_source=aggregation&fb_aggregation_id=288381481237582 Page 1 of 3 New Approaches to Themes Sacred and Sexual | Parsifal | Powder Her Face | Opera Reviews by Heidi Waleson - WSJ.com 3/2/13 12:44 PM ensure that the evening has both gravity and momentum. In Wagner's libretto, the Holy Grail is protected by an order of knights. Their leader, Amfortas, suffers horribly from a wound that will not heal, and can be cured only by a holy fool who is "enlightened by compassion." Mr. Girard moves "Parsifal" into a postapocalyptic time. In Acts I and III, Michael Levine's striking set is a parched, treeless landscape bisected by a stream which flows with blood, a symbol of the wound that divides the community. The knights, in modern white shirts and black trousers (the costumes are by Thibault Vancraenenbroeck), huddle in a circle on one side of it. On the other is a silent, excluded group of women, an indication that Mr. Girard isn't going along with the libretto's premise that forbidden sexual desire is the root of all evil; rather, it is a symbol of a fractured society. In Act II Parsifal, the "holy fool," descends into the wound itself—the Met stage is covered with a pool of "blood." Ghostly flower maidens with long black hair and white dresses tempt him in Carolyn Choa's creepy, seductive choreography. He resists them and the seductress Kundry, whose white dress and bed grow red with the blood as she splashes around in it. He recovers the lost Grail spear, kills the sorcerer Klingsor, and returns to the knights to heal Amfortas's wound and become their leader. David Finn's sensitive lighting dramatizes the deterioration of the knights' home between Acts I and Act III, and Peter Flaherty's video designs are eloquent, stylized abstractions—clouds, planets, landscape and even women's bodies—that enhance the drama of the transformation scenes and the Grail ritual. Ritual remains a central feature of this production. Yet Mr. Girard also builds a poignantly human story through the principal singers. As Gurnemanz, the éminence grise of the grail knights, bass René Pape was magisterial and warm, with a penetrating delivery that enlivened his long monologues. Baritone Peter Mattei seemed to be living the agony of Amfortas, both in the fierceness of his singing and his halting, excruciating attempts to walk. Jonas Kaufmann made Parsifal complicated and vivid, from the adolescent shrug with which he conveyed his initial lack of understanding to the pure, messianic authority of his final transformation. Evgeny Nikitin was a properly brutal, slashing Klingsor, and Katarina Dalayman brought controlled passion to Kundry, expertly crafting the seduction scene. Mr. Girard has her lift the Grail for the final ritual, as the women and the men mix together onstage for the first time. Wagner might not have approved, but the gesture of reconciliation, overriding the libretto's misogyny and obsession with male purity, fit the music and completed Mr. Girard's moving, modern vision. *** Brooklyn, N.Y. Misogyny is certainly a central theme in Thomas Adès's debut opera, "Powder Her Face" (1995), presented by the New York City Opera at the Brooklyn Academy of Music last weekend. Based on the true story of Margaret, Duchess of Argyll, whose reportedly insatiable sexual appetite was a tabloid scandal during her 1963 divorce proceedings, "Powder Her Face" is an oddly chilly affair, though Jay Scheib's ingenious production worked hard to generate some heat. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323495104578312773…ommends&fb_source=aggregation&fb_aggregation_id=288381481237582 Page 2 of 3 New Approaches to Themes Sacred and Sexual | Parsifal | Powder Her Face | Opera Reviews by Heidi Waleson - WSJ.com 3/2/13 12:44 PM The opera (Philip Hensher wrote the libretto) is constructed in eight scenes, beginning and ending in 1990, as the Duchess is about to be evicted from her hotel room for unpaid bills and is being mocked by an electrician and her maid. In between, flashbacks show key episodes in her life. Marsha Ginsberg's powder-blue set mutated quickly—shifting walls, beds and tables to create different venues. Act I was a chaotic carnival of licentiousness, its jittery, often lewd-sounding orchestrations and quick changes of mood mirrored by real-time video of what was happening both onstage and behind the scenes (cocaine-snorting in a mirrored bathroom, for example). For the scene in which the Duchess seduces a room-service waiter, in an aria that is mostly gulps and gurgles, 24 naked men, just a few of her many conquests, wandered about onstage. Like the video, and the sudden, disturbing camera flashes throughout the production, their presence made the audience complicit in the general debauchery by turning us into voyeurs. Act II slowed things down for longer set pieces: the divorce-trial judge's puritanical summation (while he was being serviced under the table) and the Duchess's wistful aria about lack of real love in her life. Still, one could never quite warm to the Duchess. The score is clever and well constructed, with echoes of Kurt Weill, Benjamin Britten and Alban Berg, but it is finally superficial, without the pathos or the horror of that other opera about a female sexual monster, "Lulu." Mezzo Allison Cook was remarkably dignified as the indomitable Duchess, and she looked splendid in Alba Clemente's striking costumes, which included some very skimpy lingerie. Nili Riemer ably navigated the high soprano flights of the Maid and other roles (she got some of the best tunes; Mr. Adès would go even wilder with this tessitura for Ariel in "The Tempest"). Tenor William Ferguson was callously bright-voiced as the Electrician and the Duchess's other tormenters, and bass Matt Boehler brought simian flexibility to the grotesque leaps of the Judge's aria and a cavernous voice of doom to the Hotel Manager. Conductor Jonathan Stockhammer skillfully kept everything together, yet slightly off balance at the same time. Ms. Waleson writes about opera for the Journal. A version of this article appeared February 20, 2013, on page D5 in the U.S. edition of The Wall Street Journal, with the headline: New Approaches to Themes Sacred and Sexual. Copyright 2012 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved This copy is for your personal, non-commercial use only. Distribution and use of this material are governed by our Subscriber Agreement and by copyright law. 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