John Adams- Doctor Atomic- Batter My Heart10/27/2023 People find it strange that I love rap and grime as much as opera. When it works it is overwhelming, appealing to all the senses and shaking you to the core. It’s just that naturalism in theatre doesn’t work for me, film does it much better.īut there is nothing naturalistic about opera, you just have to surrender to it. To be fair promenade theatre is different too, there is often something thrilling about that. I have never really liked traditional theatre, being trapped in an expensive, uncomfortable seat watching people pretending to be in their front rooms, reading the newspaper and shouting at each other is my idea of hell. My life became chaotic after that, running off with the most unsuitable man I could find and having a baby with him in Spain. It was a shock to a middle class girl from private school. But in 1968 when we went on tour to Mar Del Plata we were all arrested and I shoved in jail for a few hours with prostitutes. ![]() The Di Tella was closed down then and tens of thousands of people were tortured and killed. We did well at the Di Tella Centre which showed challenging art and performance under the Onganía dictatorship, unpleasant but not as gruesomely murderous as Galtieri eight years later. I had made an appearance in an experimental play called Liberty and Other Intoxications directed by Mario Trejo who had worked with the legendary Living Theatre when I was eighteen in Buenos Aires. In fact I had never directed anything for the stage. I had never directed an opera for the stage. DOCTOR ATOMIC (2008 The Metropolitan Opera, New York + 2009 English National Opera)
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