American opera singer who was acclaimed in the U.S. and Europe for his bold stage presence and superb acting ability as well as for his versatile lyric tenor voice that lent itself to both operatic and musical theatre interpretations.
Take David Nixon's recent dance-theatre interpretation of Hamlet for Northern Ballet Theatre.
If it has to be perfect, let's do a recording, and let's not speak about theatre or interpretation".
In many ways, this forms the central dilemma of classical theatre: fidelity versus interpretation, being faithful to the text versus bringing it to life for new audiences.
In the end theatre is all about interpretation and to think otherwise is... rubbish.
What the list says about the public and theatre is open to interpretation.
Van Hove, a Belgian director who has become a much admired and much reviled figure in the New York theatre world — his 1999 interpretation of Tennessee Williams's "A Streetcar Named Desire," for instance, featured a Blanche who played almost all her scenes in a tub — more or less follows Bergman's narrative arc.
The grand sweep of simplicity (or genius?) which might carry off "Lear" without forethought is not his, but if sheer acting ability and intelligence can make Lear live for us in the theatre, then Mr Redgrave's interpretation, taken wholly, is one of the most interesting and vivid lessons in the way to play the part.
He said, 'You'll learn interpretation in the theatre.' As a result, his students are not so well at doing those steps today.
Even before his interpretation reaches the theatre for which Parsifal was conceived, though, it is already a reading of immense stature, with a maturity and unerring sense of how to shape such a huge musical edifice that's hard to credit from a conductor still in his mid 30s.
This document appears to call for the construction of a round theatre of mounded earth, though this interpretation is disputed.
