OUT GOES 2014 AND IN COMES 2015 WITH A LOVELY ENDING TO THE OLD YEAR
Another year has started although I will not be posting this chapter for maybe another week. Belated perhaps but a very happy 2015 to you all.
Between the two festivities, I went to Lyon. My main reasons were to see the Antonín Leopold Dvořák (1841-1904) opera Rusalka at the Lyon opera house and « The King and I ». The latter we had seen in the Chatelet theatre earlier in the year - or last year now. With Lambert Wilson in the role of the King and the Anglo-Swiss soprano Christine Buffle. The show had excellent critics. I was very disappointed. « My » King of Siam is and always will be, Yul Brynner. Although a vague attempt was made to turn Lambert into the Siamese King- this tall, slender, French-English actor just did not convince me. His singing voice next to the soprano’s was just not up to it. What would Lyon bring? No décor and cut to nearly two hours without an interval, it was enchanting. And the main characters were endearing and credible. Rusalka was pure kitsch « pulling »