Marilyn Monroe 1926-1962
Robin De Raaff’s opera, Waiting For Miss Monroe, was staged at the Dutch National Opera in Amsterdam in 2012, starring Laura Aikin as Marilyn. A CD recording is now available, with a 4-star review from The Guardian‘s Andrew Clements. “In Waiting for Miss Monroe, De Raaff and his librettist Janine Brogt concentrate on the last …
Amsterdam’s latest opera, Waiting For Miss Monroe, is reviewed in today’s Financial Times. “Coming hot on the heels of Simon Curtis’s reverent film My Week With Marilyn, Raaff’s Waiting hits a similar note of literalistic hagiography. Though the medium of opera could have afforded the makers the chance to explore more distantly associative territory, Raaff and his team …
Composer Robin De Raaff’s and librettist Janice Brogt’s new opera, Waiting For Miss Monroe, starring American soprano Laura Aikin, will open at the Netherlands Opera on June 9, reports Arts Journal. It sounds like an interesting project, but the source material – the supposed ‘secret tapes’ made by Marilyn for her psychiatrist – is dubious …
The New York Times reports on ‘Waiting for Miss Monroe’, an opera starring Laura Aikin which has just opened in Amsterdam. (As ES Updates noted in April, it is said to be loosely based on the highly dubious Miner transcripts.) “After about 15 minutes one grasped the extent of Mr. de Raaff’s musical palette and …