Thank you for the Shakespeare link - we all, who live around college theater, have examples seared into our minds....
Also, why are the Capulets having all their parties in the funeral home itself? Have they no home to go to? Are they ALL just so addicted to hanging out with the corpses they can't go home?
It's the upholstery. They don't have anything else so sumptuous at home.
(Not to worry. It's a Jessica Mitford thing.)
Mary Ann
Hear, hear and thanks very much for the link. BTW, just in case you're interested in Mafia settings that do work, Jonathan Miller's production of Rigoletto set in New York with a Mafia background is wonderful. John Rawnsley and Marie McLaughlin. I don't think it's on DVD but you should be able to track down a videotape somewhere and it's well worth it if you haven't caught it already.
I do enjoy your blog: I came for the knitting and stayed for the lit crit.
If I may add my two-cents (giving myself permission here), I must say that when I read the review of the opera in one of the Pittsburgh papers (can't remember which), I was immediately offended.
I am FBI, or "full-blooded Italian," and I find it increasingly difficult to deal with this "all Italians have mob ties" thing that happens in pop culture since...forever. I'm just so glad that this production's director can read "feuding families" as "feuding mob families", but I wonder why not make them pizza-parlor owners or organ-grinders?
Thanks for the link. Wouldn't it be nice if all the offenses were perpetrated by amateurs?
The Romeo & Juliet opera that I currently can't wait to see soon is this one:
http://www.thecrucible.org/balle...llet/
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