Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2017/08/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hi, Phillipe. There are some YouTube videos of the (Czech) National Marionette Theatre, just as there are YouTube videos of everything. It appears that they completely upated the production sometime in the last few years. The video below is of the production I saw. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lOuTJO4h9c This (from 2011) appears to be the older production: <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7w1oLIF9BA> The way people react to puppets and marionettes is interesting. Some don't respond to them at all, but many people quickly accept them. There was a puppet theatre at my college in Boston back in the '70s. After their shows, the puppets and their puppeteers would come out to talk to the audience. Many people would relate to the puppets as if they were alive, ignoring the puppeteers! One of my friends was a puppeteer. His family lived in the central part of the state. On some weekends, I would ride home with him so I could visit my girlfriend, who attended a university nearby. Once, he brought one of the puppets with him. We had a "brilliant" idea. He put his right arm into the puppet's arm and steered. I held the puppet to his left and operated the head and left arm. When anyone passed us, I made the puppet look at them, follow them with his eyes, and gesture or wave. Imagine the effect on a car full of college girls passing us and thinking that a puppet was driving our car, watching them and waving. Probably not the safest thing to do. But no humans or puppets were harmed, no gendarmes were involved, and we had fun. I believe my friend got at least one phone number when we stopped for gas and the car mentioned above followed us. :-) --Peter > I remember attending one of their performances in the late 1980s - I wasn?t > thrilled then, but they seem to have improved a lot since from what I see > here. > Same again in Salzburg in 2003. > > In any case, Mozart being one of my top five composers, I?d really enjoy > seeing them again : Thanks for rekindling the lust. > > OTT: I believe Barcelona LUG meeting (2014 ?) will remember me singing La ci > darem la mano, and the Catalogue Aria with our delightful hostess after the > Jupiler Meu session. Not mentioning humming Waltzing Mathilda to the stars > with Alastair ... > > Amites > Philippe > Le 4 ao?t 2017 ? 17:39, Ken Carney <kcarney1 at cox.net> a ?crit : > > Much better than "Team America: World Police". > > Sent from my iPad > >> On Aug 4, 2017, at 12:03 AM, Peter Klein <boulanger.croissant at >> gmail.com> wrote: >> >> No, I'm not kidding. And it was great! >> >> The National Marionette Theatre of the Czech Republic regularly performs >> Mozart's "Don Giovanni," conducted by a puppet of Mozart himself. I had >> not planned on photographing it, and there was a pictorial sign that >> could have been interpreted as either "no cameras with flash," or "no >> cameras, period." I noticed several people taking photos with their >> cellphones, despite another sign that seemed to say "no cellphones." But >> the ushers didn't stop them. So I figured, if they can, I can. So I >> discretely took pictures during the second act. All I had was my 40mm >> equivalent lens, so I had to crop drastically, and someone's head >> obstructed a bit of my view on the right. I pressed the shutter button >> anyway. Here's a few of the best shots. >> >> The wronged ladies. Donna Elvira, Don Ottavio, Donna Anna, and Zerlina, >> <https://www.flickr.com/photos/24844563 at >> N04/35526029464/in/dateposted-public/> >> >> Donna Elvira implores Don Giovanni to mend his lecherous ways. >> ...Leporello has clearly heard it all before. >> <https://www.flickr.com/photos/24844563 at >> N04/36224992101/in/dateposted-public/> >> >> The Commendatore drags Don Giovanni to Hell >> <https://www.flickr.com/photos/24844563 at >> N04/35526029494/in/dateposted-public/> >> >> "I will find a better master," sings Leporello (on riser) with the rest >> of the cast. >> <https://www.flickr.com/photos/24844563 at >> N04/35526029384/in/dateposted-public/> >> >> Mozart wants to finish the Epilogue, but the custodian wants to wrap >> things up. >> <https://www.flickr.com/photos/24844563 at >> N04/36317266296/in/dateposted-public/> >> >> Enjoy! >> --Peter >> >>