tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8551261045977896784.post2752425325373909439..comments2024-03-17T05:15:02.895-04:00Comments on Operation Opera: Opera: the conscious and unconscious mirrorDr. Operahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18150662643983127706noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8551261045977896784.post-71489631670858490482012-06-07T00:46:19.452-04:002012-06-07T00:46:19.452-04:00This continues our discussion of the February New ...This continues our discussion of the February New Moon and how we might collaborate with the spiritual energies now available to us. Please differentiate between the subconscious mind and the unconscious mind. The subconscious mind can be instructed by the conscious mind.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.evitalhealth.com/Serenagen__formerly_TCB_3__100T.html" rel="nofollow">serenagen reviews</a>kaneyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04767722783117979542noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8551261045977896784.post-69522232479337026352012-04-02T17:15:58.423-04:002012-04-02T17:15:58.423-04:00Although opera can certainly provide an escape fro...Although opera can certainly provide an escape from the current, depressing times, I actually find that operas (or productions) that do something to directly challenge our current state of affairs to be the most interesting. I'm not saying that all Regie has to be overtly, presently political - I loved the one opera of Freyer's Ring that I was able to see for example - but having productions stuck in the past is incredibly boring.<br /><br />The most powerful modern opera I've seen recently was Doctor Atomic - set in 1945 but in many ways painfully relevant today. And there are plenty of modern operas that don't look just to the past. Off the top of my head I can think of:<br /><br />Dead Man Walking<br />Anna Nicole<br />Two Boys<br />Dark Sisters<br />All John Adams except A Flowering Tree<br /><br />I don't believe that these operas are going for "ripped off the headlines" relevance (though Anna Nicole certainly garner more press than we're used to for an opera premier). If an opera production or the composition of an opera were to simply portray contemporary events without any evidence as to reflection or contextualization I'd say that such a description might be relevant. But Anna Nicole wasn't really about Anna Nicole, but instead about society's obsession with celebrity and how an individual woman (ala Lulu) deals with that. [I should say I am garnering this from reviews I've read, not being able to be in London last spring.] I imagine that there are plenty of unthought out productions of fare set in contemporary times just as there is of both new and old operas set in the past. I'd say that any such unengaged direction or composition, no matter the time of the setting, is a form of escapism, to be resisted as much as possible.Mark Kharashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18032206473510191847noreply@blogger.com