Almost one in two production!
Such would be the proportion of shows requiring video at the Paris Opera today, according to Jean-Francis Bontemps, assistant to the technical director of the Opéra Bastille.
A figure that says a lot about the place that the latter has acquired in the lyrical world… For better or for worse.
Because, if the video imposed itself from the 1990s - we remember the haunting
Saint-François d'Assise
by Messiaen by Peter Sellars - as
"a possibility of contemporary artistic expression perfectly integrated by the directors and all part of the public”
, assures the director of the Paris Opera, Alexander Neef, many are those who denounce, today, an escalation of screens or projections on the opera stages.
Starting with the videographers themselves.
"The tool has become commonplace, sometimes with a cruel lack of work and refinement"
, deplores Denis Guéguin, who has collaborated with the director Krzysztof Warlikowski since...
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