Mark...thoroughly enjoying your diary. "Exterminating Angel" is an extraordinary work. These works are necessary and should be seen more. Having produced operas by Schafer, Vivier and original operas by Christopher Butterfield, Wende Bartley (electronic), Rainer Weins (prepared electric guitars), Ahmed Hassan (requiem), etc. We need more compelling music-theatre and opera in the larger halls, rather than keeping them as outlier works. Just a thought. Wagner's 'mystic gulf' promoted change and those changes can only come to life with belief in alternative experiences which deal with cathartic ineffabilities the public can engage with in the 'total work' as both Adolphe Appia and Edward Gordon Craig felt needed in theatre and music.
Mark...thoroughly enjoying your diary. "Exterminating Angel" is an extraordinary work. These works are necessary and should be seen more. Having produced operas by Schafer, Vivier and original operas by Christopher Butterfield, Wende Bartley (electronic), Rainer Weins (prepared electric guitars), Ahmed Hassan (requiem), etc. We need more compelling music-theatre and opera in the larger halls, rather than keeping them as outlier works. Just a thought. Wagner's 'mystic gulf' promoted change and those changes can only come to life with belief in alternative experiences which deal with cathartic ineffabilities the public can engage with in the 'total work' as both Adolphe Appia and Edward Gordon Craig felt needed in theatre and music.
Thanks for this thoughtful comment. I agree completely.