Reply To: Different versions of the same work?
A few weeks ago we saw the UK’s Opera North perform the Marriage of Figaro. Apparently they usually sing it in English, but this time it was in Italian with the English words shown on big screens to the side of the stage. Also, it was set in an English country house and in the sort of clothes the country set might have worn in the 1970s (so pretty much what they’d wear today).
I imagine the “feel” of it would be different to it being in period costume and another language. Would you truly be able to compare, despite it being the same music?