Really beautiful documentary. And not is Adams only a brilliant composer, but very eloquent too

41:46 imagine hearing this shit in the distance back in the day

This is great Angela and Carol.... Waiting eunoto film ❤

Fascinating.

Harsent's direct libretto here is all the difference in the world from Tony Harrison's crude and sickly one for 'Yan Tan Tethera' and is with the music rather than against it. While 'The Mask of Orpheus' has a scale and perfection like no other opera, 'The Minotaur' is technically easier to stage and has a more conventional structure. This makes it more direct than 'The Mask...', with more concentrated sheer sonic power and, dare one say, clearer access into Birtwistle's mastery of music drama. This performance and production is well nigh perfect, horrifying, multi-level, tragic (in the exact sense) but shows hope as well. Ariadne wants to end the presumed slaughter of youths and maidens every 7 years by the Minotaur in his labyrinth but her human side complicates matters (she falls for Theseus) and in Birtwistle's opera we get the viewpoint of the Minotaur. Few sacrificial Athenians have met a bloody end but Theseus is focused on slaying him and the Minotaur knows that it will have to happen. In the layered subtlety of this masterpiece we are drawn into questions of 'that which has been decreed', inevitability, the will of the Olympian gods and goddesses and the instruments of that will. If hope has brief reward the immortals have other fates in store for the key characters and, as is typical in Birtwistle's work, time itself becomes an implied character.

Randall Stevenson was my professor at Edinburgh University! Strange to see him so young 😂

He turned out to be the most incredible conductor ever. He went onto the Berlin Philharmonic.

Katharine Hepburn’s performance is the Definitive! Shaka!

If I waited 17 years for Vineland, I'd be suicidal with disappointment. Mason & Dixon is the true follow up to Gravity's Rainbow. Vineland is atrocious. He did it better with Inherent Vice, the death of the hippie dream, the hypocrisy of former hippies embracing Reaganomics. The reference to the "when to scream 'Geronimo'? Before or after the glass breaks?" with Zoyd Wheeler jumping through a window to get his disability check is just bad. He references Gravity's Rainbow's opening lines in Inherent Vice, with a surfer's scream "coming across the sky." I.V. is just better.

Remember watching this as a teenager by accident and thinking what a glamorous lady ,i loved how she interacted with other people in markets out and about then her own segments and cooking with others and took there advice when buying etc lovely lady i am in my 50s now and was sad to hear she passed rip thank yoy for this lovely series

Awsome

This is an outstanding production of what must be considered the greatest of all American plays. It is an unspeakably heart-wrenching experience to watch.

Um gênio das artes cênicas. UMA ESCOLA DE INTERPRETAÇÃO. REPRESENTAR E EMOCIONAR FOI A SUA EXISTÊNCIA. FICO ATONICO QUANDO O VEJO REPRESENTAR.NAO DESGRUDO OS OLHOS NA SUA FIGURA ICÔNICA.

The cows didn’t cut down the trees. You can have both. Regenerative farming addresses a lot of the issues raised. Read the books and watch KZfaq videos regarding Regenerative farming.

Absolutely love the photo of Thomas P @ 3:42

Long. And exhausting.

I fall for that last line every time: "...and I was so happy for a time..." & I tear up! Magnificent performance by Ms Leslie--and all three!

2:50:04 I'm....not....crying....*sniff*

The plot (so to speak)

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look good..

Eastern .

Mr carnyx is like I HAVE BEEN TRYING TO WORK IN THE WILD HOUSE BUT I'M HAVE A L BOX

just the intro solo alone is worth the tickets price

Laurence Ferlingetti's performance at the end of this video is hilarious so clever.

Thankyou for my business issues... Since 1984 August 8 eighth.

I have no idea how I got here, but wow! This was absolutely fascinating!

All his movies are my favorite but he's delicious in the silly Ruggles of Red Gap.

Mason and Dixon was quite beautiful and moving. Loved it.

Just dreadful. Avoid.

can you imagine being a Roman Legionary standing in battle line , looking out over a mass of Celtic warriors going wild , and then these horns sound , you know the charge is coming , the true age of warriors !

viva la musique contra the deaf captilists

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was that an actual bird that they killed? if so... what the fuck? literally disgusting and fuck everyone involved with this production

An absolute masterpiece! ❤

Do people still write plays?

Like a mixx of a didgeridoo and a bugle

10 000 naked gauls warriors with 100 of these charging and yelling at you.

Witness For The Prosecution, The Bribe and White Woman are some of my favourite Laughton flicks.

Cary Grant and Laughton had the same cadence in their manner of speaking.

Thank you for this wonderful video!

This is still amazing

This is my favorite movie of all time.

Now that was very interesting and entertaining

Today in France, Arverns are called "Auvergnats", and now this ancient tribes territory had been melted with the Aedui's territory, mentioned by Gaius Julius Cesar in his book : "Gauls war"... I grew up in a little town called "Romagnat" (Rome is the biggest ), just under the ancient oppidum of Gergovie, where this f****** roman guy was defeated by Vercingetorix, the ultimate leader of an ultimate shout from Gauls to Rome. I used to spend every Fridays and week-ends when I was a kid with a friend or alone klimbing upon the Plateau of Gergovie...those ancient people touch me, and I feel close to them (even if I have a German name who came later by my father, and a very, very old name and morphology, before the celts invasion of France 's territory; by my mother...and I' my one of the tirth's human beings that can drink milk as an adult 😅). In this video we can here more than one Carnix, and see the guy using it by another to carry it...and maybe we can imagine that with proper harnesses, warriors whom role was to play this impressive music instrument were very efficients...we can imagine a lot of things, and this video blowed my mind...thank you mister 😎👍

Lol. Thanks for the reply. Ask Scotty Bowers and Tyrone Power about Mr. Laughton being a diva. Or Ms. Lanchester. Great actor. Odd human being.

u say it comes from savages clearly not savages are they. very stereotypical back then. forget theres god who creates wat you all would call savages. in a world full of extreme violence.

Should poetry exist? If so, whose? What role does the reader play in qualifying the work(s)? What about canon? The gatekeepers? What will AI do to poetry and poetics? If poetry is called poetry, is it poetry for others? Isn't poetry just a product of poetics? Does a static poetics, and thus a static poetry, exist? Whose art? Whose interpretation? Whose world? What function does the context play in the reception of language, the qualification of 'art'? Does art exist? Should it? Why and why not? Is art inevitable? Is miscommunication, exclusion, needed for one thing to be not the other thing? If art is inherently exclusive, what should we exclude? People? Or conventions? Or contexts outside of the now? Please answer these questions...we are trying to find the answer...

"Laughton was a genius, and there is no room for genius in the theatre. He was greater than I was." Laurence Olivier