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Annilese Miskimmon's production, updated to verdant clapperboard 1950s America, is so nimbly handled that this charm becomes infectious.
Some of the humor in Cesare Lievi's production, updated to the early 20th century, is dumb, as when dinner at the Prince's ball erupts into a spaghetti-tossing food fight.
Donizetti's unfairly neglected opera suffers from scruffy blocking and a radical amputation of its third act in James Conway's production, updated to the 20th century and set against a broken sewer-pipe.
In the case of the new Guillaume Tell, it seems as if the context of its rape scene, placed where the third-act ballet should have been, in a poor production updated to present-day Balkans but otherwise apparently lacking in perceptive ideas, added to the disapproval.
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Martin Lloyd-Evans's production updates her story to the 1940s.
The production updates the story to the 1920s.
This production updates the biblical story and relocates it in a spa for rich Americans; during the Dance of the Seven Veils Salome is gang-raped by the Five Jews who are Herod's cohorts.
Willy Decker's Salzburg production, updating the opera to the 1960s and rejecting theatrical naturalism in favour of a symbolic, intuitive approach, was not to everyone's taste when it opened in 2005.
The production, updating the action to World War I, has lost some of its starch over the years, so that some of the coups de théâtre -- like Parpignol's revealing a death's-head to the audience -- begin to smack of going through the motions.
Whether this kind of anti-competitive price fixing is out of financial self-interest or whether it's due to the high cost of production, updating, and distribution (or some combination thereof), textbooks are expensive, and it's probably fair to say that students hate it.
This production updates the story to a modern Mafia scenario, with special effects "worthy of a Bond film".
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