Going Back yet Moving Forward Giles Havergal Tells Michael Tumelty Why He's Revisiting the Past

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HOW do stage directors feel about having to walk in their own footprints? How do they react when the phone rings and, instead of a juicy offer to direct a challenging new production, they are invited instead to replicate work they have already done two, three or even more times?

It's an interesting dilemma, says Giles Havergal, in Scotland to restage his lovely, witty version of Donizetti's opera L'Elisir d'amore - The Elixir of Love - for Scottish Opera for the second time. "Some directors really don't like doing it: it's a balancing act between what you did and what you're doing now."

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Going Back yet Moving Forward Giles Havergal Tells Michael Tumelty Why He's Revisiting the Past

And for directors who are not keen to repeat themselves, as it were, there is now an additional tension . "Opera companies depend on revivals, obviously, but they are more and more insisting ...

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