Stage director Joel Ivany. “Semi-staged” is one of the scarier terms that has burrowed its way into the classical music world. Often, it’s a euphemism for “pretentious,” “underfunded” or “lame.”
So it was with a mixture of curiosity and trepidation that I arrived at Roy Thomson Hall on Saturday evening to hear the Toronto Symphony’s “semi-staged” Mozart Requiem. However, I’m happy to report that the performance didn’t deserve any of the nasty adjectives above. Instead, the whole thing was rather pleasant.
So it was with a mixture of curiosity and trepidation that I arrived at Roy Thomson Hall on Saturday evening to hear the Toronto Symphony’s “semi-staged” Mozart Requiem. However, I’m happy to report that the performance didn’t deserve any of the nasty adjectives above. Instead, the whole thing was rather pleasant.
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