| re: Morbidity? Maybe opera companies will pick up the slack. | |
| Posted by: AlanScott 07:14 pm EDT 03/12/24 | |
| In reply to: re: Morbidity? Maybe opera companies will pick up the slack. - WeillFan 06:59 pm EDT 03/12/24 | |
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| This is from a Bloomberg.com interview published on July 15, 2004. David Benedict was the interviewer. Bloomberg: London's Royal Opera House recently produced your musical thriller ``Sweeney Todd,'' which many regard as your masterpiece. Is it true that you disliked it? Sondheim: The leading actors, Thomas Allen and Felicity Palmer, were excellent, but I didn't like the production. If the opera house wants to revive it, I would feel honor-bound to let them. But when the Los Angeles opera asked to buy the production I said no. ******* I would link it, but the link I have saved for it no longer works. I wonder if I might still be able to find it by doing a search, but I'm guessing it's no longer online so I'm glad that I saved the text. I seem to think, but I may be wrong, that there was another interview in which he stated his dislike for it in stronger terms, but the simple fact that he would not allow it to be done in Los Angeles makes clear, I think, how much he must have disliked it. Perhaps what ended up happening was that Los Angeles Opera did try to rent the City Opera production after Sondheim nixed borrowing the Chicago/Royal Opera production, but then Dreamworks put a stop to that. If so, it's pretty silly, as if a run at Los Angeles Opera would significantly affect the movie's grosses. If I can find out any more, I'll post about it. |
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