Mr. Duffy aims for a more abstract staging that has the vibe of experimental theater in the 1960s.
In this dramatically abstract staging, the director Stephen Lawless contrasts realistic acting for the main characters with highly stylized, almost choreographic movements for the choruses of sailors and seamstresses.
The abstract staging deftly employs movable screens, billowing fabrics, stylized costumes and, most daringly, a life-size puppet manipulated by three puppeteers to portray Butterfly's 3-year-old son.
Bartlett Sher's abstract staging, set in a generalized nineteenth-century locale, gains strength as the blood of Shakespeare's jealous Moor begins to boil — as does the singing of Aleksandrs Antonenko, in the punishing title role.
Robert Wilson's boldly abstract staging of Wagner's "Lohengrin" was booed on opening night in 1998 but cheered the next season, after audiences had adjusted to the look and concept of the work, and after the cast's original stylized hand and arm gestures had been toned down considerably.
The production is scheduled for high-definition broadcast to movie theaters on Feb. 12. Concurrently, beginning on Feb. 9, the Canadian Opera Company in Toronto will present the opera in a stylish abstract staging by James Robinson, originally mounted by the Opera Theater of St . Louisin 2004.
Belgian director Ivo van Hove extended Broadway's adventurous streak with a stark, abstract staging of Arthur Miller's proletarian drama A View from the Bridge and, late in the year, continued to burnish his U.S. reputation with an attention-getting new musical, Lazarus, at New York Theatre Workshop.
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