Why on earth go to extreme lengths to secure an "authentic" musical performance, with period instruments and a fully developed grammar of vocal ornamentation recreating 18th century practices and then saddle it with a perverse, vandalic and utterly irrelevant "conceptual" production full of enervating nonsense?
Hervieu's mise-en-scène bears no relation whatever to Rameau's creation and can only be considered an alien accretion visited upon a work with no one to defend it. Why would musicians who have dedicated their performing lives to understanding the creative mentality and style that gave life to a theatre piece participate in such a desecration? It seems to involve a complete negation of the logic of their own lives.
Hervieu's mise-en-scène bears no relation whatever to Rameau's creation and can only be considered an alien accretion visited upon a work with no one to defend it. Why would musicians who have dedicated their performing lives to understanding the creative mentality and style that gave life to a theatre piece participate in such a desecration? It seems to involve a complete negation of the logic of their own lives.