“The characters into whose mindsets Vickers wormed his way were mostly tragic figures: flawed leaders, social outcasts, sexual obsessives caught in the toils of Eros. The labour the roles involved was immense … Vickers could, indeed, open himself up to psychotic states.” (includes video of Vickers as Canio, Don Jose and Peter Grimes)
Tag: 07.13.15
Top Posts From AJBlogs 07.13.15
In Memoriam: Jon Vickers
AJBlog: OperaSleuth Published 2015-07-13
Other Matters: The Universality Of Jon Vickers
creation and destruction
AJBlog: Infinite Curves Published 2015-07-13
Jess Solomon: Values
AJBlog: Field Notes Published 2015-07-13
Ari Weinzweig: Congruency & Values
AJBlog: Field Notes Published 2015-07-13
Clyde Valentin: Values
AJBlog: Field Notes Published 2015-07-13
Why SF Playhouse’s Company Needs to Get with the Times
AJBlog: Lies Like Truth Published 2015-07-12
Pay-to-Play: Cosbys Bankrolled Their Show at Smithsonian’s National Museum of African Art
AJBlog: CultureGrrl Published 2015-07-13
The Mouthpiece Placement Question
AJBlog: RiffTides Published 2015-07-13
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How Much Work Did Harper Lee’s Editor Do Between ‘Watchman’ And ‘Mockingbird’?
“How big a role did she play in reconceiving the story from a dark tale of a young woman’s disillusionment with her father’s racist views, to a redemptive one of moral courage and human decency? And, for that matter, how would Ms. Hohoff have felt about the decision, more than a half-century later, to publish a prototype of ‘Mockingbird’?”