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DS_RK_vi04.mov |
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Fourth video interview clip with Theatre Designer Ralph Koltai |
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I don't think of it as a difference, my response, which is a difference between drama and opera, is that opera on the surface appears to be more exciting when you are being given the project. If you are told to Verdi, Puccini, Madame Butterfly whatever it sounds much more exciting than at that point than being asked to do a play. Leave Shakespeare out of it, Shakespeare is something else, but any other play let us say. In the end in the final analysis, you quite often are much more disappointed with the outcome of opera than you are with the outcome of drama because actors will surprise you by adding something amazing by the nature of their performance, which you weren't quite expecting like that. You think oh that's very rather splendid, that's wonderful and so the totality in the end is more rewarding frequently than the totality in opera. I think that opera singers are really much more predictable because if you know them, you know their voices, if they've wonderful voices okay you know it's a wonderful voice so it's not going to surprise you. If it's not a particularly wonderful voice, that doesn't surprise you either because you've heard it before but they're quite happy and as long as you are in a position where they can see the conductor, they are happy and as long as you give them a costume which doesn't press on their diaphragm they are happy, and if the lady is a soprano and she is a bit difficult put her in a red frock and then she'll be happy. Of course there are exceptions to all of that, I did a production of xxxxxx, an opera by Peter Maxwell-Davis where Benjamin Laxon's a jester in it, volunteered to jump over a 9 foot high platform onto the floor, do a summersault, stood up and sang. Now you can't ask anybody to do that, it just happened that before he became an opera singer he was a physical training instructor, so he did that because it amused him to do it and so yes that certainly was a surprise but that's the exception rather than the rule. |
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DS_20_06_01 (mini DV tape) |
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Quicktime Progressive (video) |
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Resource Movie |
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This clip may be used for educational purposes only, any commercial use of this material requires permission from the copyright holders. Misuse or misrepresentation may result in legal action. Copyright holder: Christie Carson, COMPH, Royal Holloway University of London. |
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2 minutes 53.25 seconds |
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