State visits have a hard time adjusting to the cultural agenda, and then when the queen, due to a visit to Norway planned years before, has to cancel her opening of the Holland Festival misses, that is force majeure. And not something else, though of course it remains delightful in these politically confused times to speculate on other reasons why Her Majesty was absent from Amal Maher, on 1 June. But it still seems odd that she was rushed to Norway because of a few acultural and intolerant screamers.
Especially since she does now come to watch Trisha Brown. The Majesty is of course a huge dance lover, so that helps too. Anyway: so on 13 June, she is coming to Theatre Carré for Pygmalion, Rameau's opera that Brown provided with appropriate movements.
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"Rameau's opera that Brown provided with appropriate movements".
The word 'appropriate' as a value judgment is somewhat misplaced because this sentence was published even before the piece had its world premiere. Unfortunately, the choreography is anything but appropriate! Trisha Brown makes dancers move utterly incoherently to music. Unfortunately, the (excellent) singers suffer the same fate; they have to make mostly spastic movements while singing. Visual perception thus leads the spectator away from the music and the tender mood evoked by the libretto.
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