Tuesday, January 12, 2010

JESSICA DUCHEN:''WHEN SCHUBERT MEETS BECKETT''

''I'd like to refer you over to The New Yorker today for a wonderful article by Alex Ross about Schubert's Winterreise, as reimagined for the stage by Katie Mitchell. The show, One Evening, makes much of the connection between Schubert's bleak winter landscape of the soul and those of Samuel Beckett. It was premiered in Aldeburgh last summer, visited the Queen Elizabeth Hall and is now in the Big Apple. There's an interview with the performers and director in the New York Times, here.''
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