Off to see Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress tonight at Lyon's Opera House. Producer Robert Lepage's idea to set the opera in 1950s America sounds promising (Stravinsky composed this, his final opera, between 1947-51 around a decade after he arrived in America); am already intrigued by the comic strip version of the plot, created by Denis Chapon and published by the Opera de Lyon, and indeed am equally intrigued (and slightly bemused) by the website for the production: (http://www.opera-lyon.
com/rakesprogress/index.html - you can also find the pdf version of the comic book (BD) here). Reviews so far have been glowing - Le Monde described the production as "virtuose, poetique", Le Soir as "Éblouissant". I'll make sure to choose an equally good expand-your-French-vocabulary adjective to sum up what I think of it. Watch this space.
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