Saturday, May 24, 2014

"STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE" OPERA---PRETENTIOUS CRAP









THREE LINES INTO THIS I knew it was trouble, but I stayed long enough to make sure. Andre Previn's music is totally atonal, repetitive---no musicality whatsoever. Phillip Littel's book sounds like a seven-year-old wrote it. It is laughable.

I'm sorry, Renee.. Not even you could save this

Shame on Andre Previn



But, I do what to say that the actors/singers, Renee Fleming et. al, are marvelous. They did everything they could with what they were given. No wonder it's a short engagement. All anyone was talking about at teh first intermission was how awful it was.

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