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David Pountney
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Length:
38 minutes
Released:
Feb 22, 1998
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
Sue Lawley's castaway this week is the opera producer David Pountney. Alongside Mark Elder and Peter Jonas at the ENO, he tried to make opera more attractive to a wider audience. The opera stage, he says, shouldn't be treated like a mantle shelf filled with fragile objects. It's a versatile and robust art form which needn't be stuck in the past. So he staged Carmen in an automobile graveyard, with a pink Cadillac and a giant billboard, while his Hansel and Gretel was set in a 1950s housing project.[Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs] Favourite track: String Quartet No 2 'Intimate Letters' by Leos Janáček
Book: Anthology: The English Year by Geoffrey Grigson
Luxury: Croquet lawn
Book: Anthology: The English Year by Geoffrey Grigson
Luxury: Croquet lawn
Released:
Feb 22, 1998
Format:
Podcast episode
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