The Feydeau is his first stage work for four years.
"Once you start looking at it from the actors' point of view and what they need to make the stage work for them, actually what it does is make the stage a really interesting place," Silbert says.
Prokofiev's 80-year-old opera, revived on Tuesday night at the New York City Opera, rehabilitates Carlo Gozzi's mid-18th-century stage work for use against a new set of enemies.
Schoenberg's most-important atonal compositions include Five Orchestral Pieces, Op. 16 (1909); the monodrama Erwartung, Op. 17 (1924; "Expectation"), a stage work for soprano and orchestra; Pierrot Lunaire, 21 recitations ("melodramas") with chamber accompaniment, Op.
Director Tom Hooper has adapted the stage work for a more intimate experience while still maintaining a story of epic proportions and a sweeping score that embarks on an exhilarating and exhausting emotional journey.
Balanchine occasionally staged works for it, and Danish dancers have appeared with City Ballet, which is now led by a Dane, Peter Martins.
His Cincinnati production was aided by Bart Cook, a former City Ballet dancer who stages works for the Balanchine Trust, and it generated considerable dramatic intensity, with Kristi Capps, as an unearthly sleepwalker, and Mr. Trubchanov, as a poet infatuated with her.
It includes 19 arrangements of songs and dances from the composer's stage works, scored for reed-and-brass-dominated dance bands by staff arrangers for Weill's publishers between 1927 and 1950.
Glass's techniques have long been incorporated in other mainstream lyric stage works, as for example Jonathan Dove's Flight, produced at UCLA three years ago.
Studio space was limited and the crew had to make five stages work for approximately 16 sets, and increased the size of the 007 stage by over 30%.
