Meier is a vision, the total artist, a voice from heaven. I do not know Evans at all. Kupfer's addiction to postmodern motor oil drenched latex outfits, keratin shell casing hair styles, and dreary, bleak, stark, astringent stage trappings that give Wagner's stage designs written in his librettos the big middle finger has been polluting opera theatres for far, far too many years now. The only people who will think this is how Wagner should be staged, gushing "it's so avant-garde, so fresh, so irreverent, it must be great!" are gullible marxists who don't realize they are gullible or marxists. Everything around the singers is dreck.
Indeed, cultural marxism has become a simple formulaic explanation of everything - for simple people. May they never wake up. Funny thing of course is that this formula follows the same logic and lack of deeper analysis as the simplissistic explanations provided by many lefties in the 1970s. The opposing parties seem to deserve each other.
@@stillstanding6031 Then why mount a staging at all? Look, opera came to us and promised it would depict the 3 dimensions of the human condition for our total entertainment, the musical, the physical and the dramatic. Ok? Besides, it was Wagner who said the music serves the drama, not vice versa. Fact check me.
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