About to open a revival of Rutherford and Son in Halifax, he has been in headline-grabbing mode for the past couple of weeks.
Richard Eyre is opening a revival of "The Crucible" tonight, Nicholas Hytner's production of the new musical "Sweet Smell of Success" opens on March 14, and Trevor Nunn's remounting of his acclaimed Royal National Theater production of "Oklahoma!" opens on March 21.
The program opened with a revival of "The Garden of Villandry," another knowing look at love by Martha Clarke.
Admittedly, I wish he hadn't opened with a revival of "Syzygy" (1987), whose music (by Donald York) strikes me as tacky, and whose high-energy, shake-it-all-about choreography strikes me as watchably bogus.
The program opened with a revival of William Whitener's 1991 "Ola Chica," whose title is described in program notes as a Spanish term referring to the curl of an ocean wave.
The 2012 13 season opened with a revival of Der Ring des Nibelungen, directed by Keith Warner; new productions that season included Robert le diable, directed by Laurent Pelly, Eugene Onegin, directed by Holten, La donna del lago, directed by Fulljames, and the UK premiere of Written on Skin, composed by George Benjamin and directed by Katie Mitchell.
In this context, it's a shock to see the company open with a revival of Shimmer (2004), a piece that has its seven dancers dressed in crystal-meshed tunics.
The Da Capo Players opened the concert with a revival of Joseph Schwantner's "Wind, Willow, Whisper...," a work written for the group's 10th anniversary in 1980.
Both "Rodelinda," which the Met first mounted in 2004 starring Renée Fleming, and "Giulio Cesare," which opened on Friday in a revival of a staging by John Copley introduced in 1988, were originally presented by Handel in the King's Theater in London, which seated just 850.
