http://classical-scene.com/2010/02/05/evocative-setting-for-ghostly-turn-blo-at-the-castle-inboxx/ a virtual journal and blog of the classical music scene in Boston Fri, 10 Feb 2012 12:49:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://classical-scene.com/2010/02/05/evocative-setting-for-ghostly-turn-blo-at-the-castle-inboxx/comment-page-1/#comment-1549 Jonah Sun, 07 Feb 2010 22:29:23 +0000 http://classical-scene.com/?p=2632#comment-1549 Great review! I disagree, however, with your comment on the projection. Rather than distracting, I felt that video provided several layers of enhancement to the production. First, the Castle was chosen for its resemblance to the setting of the novella/opera. The director hoped to use as much of the building as possible to enhance this choice of space and the projections show the characters in other parts of the castle, namely the gloomy basement. Next, the plot is very complex and intentionally vague. The reader/audience is not necessarily supposed to be clear about the existence of the ghosts, or who is evil, or if the children are being manipulated at all. I believe that the director used the video to give the characters another layer of ambiguity. Allowing for the audience to consider them benevolent former servants at times, or real predators. The libretto remained unaffected, but the directors interpretation of the story as a true mystery was pulled of successfully. At first, it definitely took time to get used to the video, and give in to it; and some of the vignettes seemed only there to fill time. However, by the end I felt that it was an unobtrusive and very effective use of multimedia. Great review! I disagree, however, with your comment on the projection. Rather than distracting, I felt that video provided several layers of enhancement to the production. First, the Castle was chosen for its resemblance to the setting of the novella/opera. The director hoped to use as much of the building as possible to enhance this choice of space and the projections show the characters in other parts of the castle, namely the gloomy basement. Next, the plot is very complex and intentionally vague. The reader/audience is not necessarily supposed to be clear about the existence of the ghosts, or who is evil, or if the children are being manipulated at all. I believe that the director used the video to give the characters another layer of ambiguity. Allowing for the audience to consider them benevolent former servants at times, or real predators. The libretto remained unaffected, but the directors interpretation of the story as a true mystery was pulled of successfully. At first, it definitely took time to get used to the video, and give in to it; and some of the vignettes seemed only there to fill time. However, by the end I felt that it was an unobtrusive and very effective use of multimedia.

]]> http://classical-scene.com/2010/02/05/evocative-setting-for-ghostly-turn-blo-at-the-castle-inboxx/comment-page-1/#comment-1547 Laurence Glavin Sun, 07 Feb 2010 21:24:09 +0000 http://classical-scene.com/?p=2632#comment-1547 During the Friday night performance, Miles was sung by an even younger Ryan Williams, with great success. In an opera like "Pelleas et Melisande", the boy soprano appears briefly...in "Amahl and the Night Visitors", he carries the show. "Turn of the Screw" is between these two extremes. During the Friday night performance, Miles was sung by an even younger Ryan Williams, with great success. In an opera like “Pelleas et Melisande”, the boy soprano appears briefly…in “Amahl and the Night Visitors”, he carries the show. “Turn of the Screw” is between these two extremes.

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