3/26/2023 0 Comments Rare oedipe paris opera![]() ![]() ![]() The heavy, stylised, costumes - extravagant to the point of caricature - are in themselves a theatrical tool that both enable and yet also constrain the drama of this young Mozart’s early work. The time is about 65 BC and the world is one of an old Asia Minor versus a rising Rome, with an ageing King Mitridate fighting off both martial and sexual invasions of his territories. Essentially, director Graham Vick and designer Paul Brown and their team created a world, half historic, half fantastic, and one is left with a visual memory replete with starkly simple blood-red sets, kaleidoscopically coloured bizarrely shaped costumes and arrowed shafts of silver light, almost painfully reflecting from armoured breastplates. To this newcomer’s eye it is still both amazingly original in its design and concept, and yet also oddly frustrating. I can only dimly imagine how this singular and arresting production was first greeted at Covent Garden back in 1991. ![]()
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