[Buddha-l] Ready for this, folks? Interesting idea.........

[Jo]

Most "great" artists have been arrogant prats. 
He was and is very controversial. However, thousands love his music. I
wonder about the point of making an opera on a work he never finished. This
opera has a gimmicky idea using Pali--so opera fans and maybe some Buddhists
will go just to see how they did it, and if it's musically worthwhile.

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Apart from this I think the idea is rather tasteless Wagner being an
arrogant prat.

Erik

Jo <ugg-5 at spro.net> schreef:

>Didn't the Buddha speak Magadhi?
>Joanna
>
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>http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-22478474
>
>A new opera attempting to combine Wagner's interest in Buddhism with 
>Buddhism, so that the Wagner impersonator speaks in German, the Buddha 
>and Buddhist texts to be sung in Pali. Gombrich did the Pali 
>translating.
>
>"An opera written by composer Jonathan Harvey about Richard Wagner is 
>to be partly performed in Pali, the 2,000-year-old language spoken by 
>Buddha.
>(As
>I understand, Buddha's spoken language was definitely not Pali. With 
>Gombrich around, why can't BBC get it right? Arg] Welsh National Opera
>(WNO)
>director David Pountney said the ancient Asian language was the most 
>appropriate for the production, titled Wagner Dream.............
>Wagner Dream will be staged at Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff, on 6-7 
>June, with a performance in Birmingham on 12 June."
>
>"In the show, a dying Wagner reflects on his own unfinished Buddhist 
>opera."
>I wonder if they had any music mss notes to work with. 
>Joanna
> 
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