WTF subconscious?

[pallas_athena]

I woke up this morning somewhat bewildered after a prolonged, detailed dream about directing Verdi's Il Trovatore at Covent Garden. Weirdly, my subconscious came up with a really good staging for the Anvil Chorus.

Just... what?

Comments

[breltard95.livejournal.com]

Nu? What's your idea?

[artnouveauho.livejournal.com]

In the dream, I had people enter as if they were getting home to the gypsy camp after a hard day's work. Which is nonsense, because the Anvil Chorus takes place at dawn. In the dream, it had a late-at-night feel. Anyway:

In the opening bits of music, a couple of guys get to work on anvils, but most of the chorus build a bonfire down center. Any opera chorus includes a certain number of dancers, so once the loud-and-famous bit of the music started I was going to have the male dancers start leaping over the bonfire to impress the girls. And then they get out the wine, and they have this whole anvil party going on with dancing in one corner and a few couples jumping the bonfire hand in hand, and couples sneaking off upstage to make out, and sweaty guys working on anvils... and then Azucena comes downstage, hypnotically drawn to the bonfire for her nightly litany of memory, and everyone subsides into silence and stillness to watch her. She sings the whole thing over the fire, trance-like, not acknowledging any other person. And I thought: "yes. Fire is the only thing she fears. In the interrogation scene, the Count di Luna's men can menace her by shoving torches into her face..."

(and there was a bit of the dream where I was arguing with the Covent Garden admin people over how much it cost to have fire onstage and how long it could last, and how many dancers I could have in the chorus, and how many actors, and so on. Why is my subconscious doing this?)

[artnouveauho.livejournal.com]

Whatever I did, it could never be as awesome as this... (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3x-pwJGsgU)

[breltard95.livejournal.com]

That was mucho awesomeness, but how much better would it have been if them sweaty half-nekkid mens were JUMPING THROUGH FIRE?!?

[artnouveauho.livejournal.com]

/faints from hormone overload

[justpolina.livejournal.com]

Well good, and I wish you would!!

[artnouveauho.livejournal.com]

I expect a call from the ROH any day now.

[breltard95.livejournal.com]

You could always start your own Opera on Tap chapter.

[larissa-00.livejournal.com]

So you'd be Yaaay! to Covent Garden, not *scary!!*
What about the Met, or la Scala? ;->