'Pure, Incomprehensible Perverseness': Rehearsing Romeo and Juliet at La Scala Ballet
"How often has one sat at a first night at the opera or ballet, groaning at missed cues, horrors with costumes, disasters with lighting: one thinks they should surely have got it right by this time? … And what if indeed it is human ineptitude that conspires?" Not to mention the cascading strikes … The Arts Desk (London) 07/25/10

Posted July 28, 2010 09:46 PM