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The Met Opera's New Season: What We Want to See - The New York Times

In an effort to program contemporary works, the company will present recent operas by Jeanine Tesori, John Adams, Jake Heggie and Osvaldo Golijov.

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The Met Opera's New Season: What We Want to See - The New York Times

In an effort to program contemporary works, the company will present recent operas by Jeanine Tesori, John Adams, Jake Heggie and Osvaldo Golijov.

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Judi Dench

i can remember thinking, "why not? she's having hysteria at this time. "she's gone to pieces." so i had a bit of a laugh and fell over a bit. i was kneeling at his feet... "rooky nook" is very, very funny. did you cover it, then? do you think people...? no, i turned it into some kind of hysteria. shouldn't think i fooled pussy, i don't know. she laughs but that must be very difficult, though. i mean, having that reaction and knowing that people are seeing every twitch of yourface, to playing at the olivier or somewhere, a big space. it must change... it changes all the time. ..the performance. it changes all the time. because if you have a good night, it's completely fatal to think, the next night, think, "oh, i must do it like that." no, no, no, it never works like that. you've got to rethink it, i think. when we did antony and cleopatra at the national, we did 100 performances,

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Judi Dench

and i knew that there was a laugh in a line that cleopatra said, and i tried, for 99 performances... ..to get the laugh. and on the 100th, i got the laugh. i'm going to come back to antony and cleopatra. you'd already played lady macbeth, hadn't you, i think 10, 12 years earlier in... africa. west africa. ..a tour of west african countries? yes. we did... where'd you go? ghana, sierra leone... ? ghana, sierra leone and nigeria. and we were the very, very first lot to go. and that was british council? british council. right. the british council said, would we go? because macbeth, twelfth night, and arms and the man were the set books for these young people, the children in nigeria, ghana, sierra leone. would we go and perform them? it was an experience i'll never, ever, everforget. ever. everything that rhymed made everybody laugh a lot.

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Judi Dench

should be adapted. it's what it does to the person watching, isn't it? it's a reference, perhaps. but, i mean, you know, he knew... he knew absolutely everything, as far as i'm concerned, shakespeare, about every condition. and, therefore, that's why the plays have gone on for so long, because so many things mean different things to different people. and as well as that, all the emotions mean different things to people. mm. and he was able to somehow say it in a way that we use today, colloquially. mm. we don't know that we do it so often, i think. the next role that i'd like to talk about is another powerful, tragic woman — cleopatra in antony and cleopatra. and you played opposite anthony hopkins... idid. ..in a peter hall—directed

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Judi Dench

upon you but when you are well pleased. that herod's head i'll have! but how, when antony is gone, through whom i might command it? there's gold for thee. tell me about working with anthony hopkins as antony. he was wonderful and very, very unexpected. you never knew which way he was going tojump. and that was important to that relationship between the two of them. mm. but then, at his death, we were up at the monument and he would lie and he would die. and he would say to me, "and now you do act v "and i'm going to have a nice cup of tea." what, he would whisper that? and that's true. yes. really? "now i'll go and have a nice cup of tea while you do "act v, right?" let me just take you back to cleopatra. antony and cleopatra, in 1987, directed by peter hall,

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Breakfast

mmm. and he was able to somehow say it in a way that we use today, colloquially. mmm. we don't know that we do it so often, i think. it's just occurred to me, i've said the word "macbeth" several times in your house. that's ok with you, is it? oh, yes. the next role that i'd like to talk about is another powerful, tragic woman — cleopatra in antony and cleopatra. and you played opposite anthony hopkins... idid. ..in a peter hall—directed production at the national theatre in 1987. i've read that you questioned peter hall's judgement when he cast you as cleopatra. idid. what was your worry? isaid, "well, you'll get a lot of laughs. "she's meant to be a very, very tall girl," i said. laughs queen of egypt. not quite right.

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Breakfast

at the 0livier or somewhere, a big space. it must change... it changes all the time. ..the performance. it changes all the time. because if you have a good night, it's completely fatal to think, the next night, think, "oh, i must do "it like that." no, no, no, it never works like that. you've got to rethink it, ithink. when we did antony and cleopatra at the national, we did 100 performances, and i knew that there was a laugh in a line that cleopatra said, and i tried, for 99 performances... ..to get the laugh. and on the 100th, i got the laugh. i'm going to come back to antony and cleopatra. you'd already played lady macbeth, hadn't you, i think 10, 12 years earlier in... africa. west africa. ..a tour of west african countries? yes. we did... where'd you go? ghana, sierra leone... ? ghana, sierra leone and nigeria. and we were the very, very first lot to go. and that was british council?

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Breakfast

we were up at the monument and he would lie and he would die. and he would say to me, "and now you do act v and i'm "going to have a nice cup of tea." what, he would whisper that? and that's true. yes. really? "now i'll go and have a nice cup of tea while you do "act v, right?" was that the laughter that you were referring —— antony and cleopatra, in 1987, directed by peter hall, who was running the national theatre at the time, of course, wasn't he? so how would you characterise him as a director? oh, gosh, he used to stand at a lectern with the script, so that he would... and he would slightly beat it out so that you absolutely knew the rhythm that it should be. and i remember the death of cleopatra. "0ur royal lady's dead, dead, dead. "0ur royal lady's murdered." and he would... and we, the three of us, were there, one day,

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