But given the Savoyard tradition of topical updating, a modern production of "The Mikado" is only partly a 19th-century work.
Mr. Crutchfield, leading the festival's resident Orchestra of St . Lukes and a well-balanced cast, gave a brisk, vibrant account of the score, but he also treated it as he would a Verdi or Donizetti opera, prizing fidelity to the text and avoiding the topical updating that has become a tradition of Gilbert and Sullivan performance.
The voice was in excellent shape when Move opened the discipline-crossing series "Live Ideas 2017: Mx'd Messages" at New York Live Arts with "Martha@20," a greatest-hits collection of Graham shtick sprinkled with topical updates.
The production, directed by Mr. Bergeret and Jan Holland, with choreography by Bill Fabris (including a third-act tap dance for Hildebrand's soldiers) had a simplicity that let the work speak for itself, and the topical updating was amusing and lightly applied.
Compared to last season's notorious topical updating of Verdi's "Aida" — and to the other works in this year's festival, which include a popular Broadway musical, a fascinating pair of staged vocal works not intended for the theater, and a rare Verdi flop — "The Flying Dutchman" was presented in an essentially traditional manner.
That means generating how-tos, topical updates, press releases, case studies, thought leadership pieces, white papers and more.
A terrific (but gentle) parody of a show well in need of it, "Dickens" could be repeated every year, with occasional topical updates by co-writers Adrea Gibbs and Scott Martin.
The album's release is a high-tech, globe-spanning update of a topical song tradition that's much older than recordings: the broadside, a songwriter's rapid response to events of the day.
Sure the story is really nothing new, albeit updated with a topical eco-friendly theme, complete with a predictable love story and obvious good versus evil polarity, but the film is more a visual feast than a character study.
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