| re: Morbidity? Maybe opera companies will pick up the slack. | |
| Last Edit: WeillFan 07:05 pm EDT 03/12/24 | |
| Posted by: WeillFan 06:59 pm EDT 03/12/24 | |
| In reply to: re: Morbidity? Maybe opera companies will pick up the slack. - AlanScott 06:37 pm EDT 03/12/24 | |
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| Was Sondheim ever quoted on the record for loathing the Royal Opera/Lyric Opera of Chicago co-production of "Sweeney Todd"? As for the Los Angeles Opera's plans for "Sweeney Todd," I recall that they had announced Bryn Terfel as the title star for a planned 2005 production (Terfel was Sweeney in the 2002 Lyric Opera of Chicago run). But then the stage rights were pulled supposedly because Tim Burton's film version of "Sweeney Todd" was in pre-production. At least that's what Los Angeles Times critic Mark Swed mentioned in his review of the replacement vehicle for Terfel: a revival of Verdi's "Falstaff." And if Sondheim loathed Neil Armfield's production of "Sweeney Todd," the New York City Opera/Houston Grand Opera production by Harold Prince would also have been readily rentable. From the article: "Terfel was originally signed on to sing 'Sweeney Todd,' but DreamWorks, hoping someday to make a movie, grabbed the rights to Stephen Sondheim’s operetta and, in an act of highhanded artistic censorship, forced the company to cancel its production. The film is on hold, and DreamWorks did allow a British production to be done last fall, but didn’t relax the local ban." |
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| Link | LA Times 2005 review of Bryn Terfel in "Falstaff" |
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