HGO’s production of “Turandot” will sound familiar to those with affinity for Puccini’s opera. It will not, however, look familiar.
Houston Grand Opera, Wortham Theater, 510 PrestonWilson says, “To me, lighting in works of mine is like painting. I’m just painting with light.”
The darkness emanates from Turandot’s consideration of three suitors. She begrudgingly decides to marry but with a sinister couple caveat. She’ll marry only a suitor who can solve three riddles, and the cost of an incorrect response to any one riddle is beheading. Suffice to say, stakes are high. He founded the Byrd Hoffmann School of Byrds theater company and presented “The King of Spain” in 1969, recruiting young artists for two nights at an East Village theater for a performance more attuned to vaudeville than lacquered Broadway productions. A New York Times account suggests a show that spoke to a spare aesthetic that Wilson would further investigate in the coming years.
Wilson says his process includes simultaneous creation of sets and costumes and lighting, and he workshopped it at his Watermill Center, a “laboratory” space he founded 30 years ago in Long Island, N.Y. True to Waits’ comment, Wilson with a group of students worked on lighting, blocking, movements and other visuals “silently without any singers.”
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