So you think the new ROH logo is bad....

20 September 2011

So you think the new ROH logo is bad....

Ope Tuttgart?

Not quite.

This is the new logo for Oper Stuttgart, commissioned for 'a five figure sum' by incoming artistic director Jossi Wieler to mark the start of his reign.

'More fit for a techno festival' was just one of the local grumbles - and a respected graphic design blog wondered if it was a joke.

20 Sep 2011 00:08:49 | Stuttgart Opera

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And this is the man whose taste we are to trust in the ROH's forthcoming, first-ever staging of Rusalka...

If they were borrowing in second-hand, they could have had Schenk's Vienna staging - which plays the work straight - or Carsen's extraordinary revisionist version - modern dress, happy-ending and all - from the Bastille, but no: we have to have the Scheiss that sullies Salzburg instead. Joy!

Posted by: sjt | 20 September 2011 at 04:59 AM

Looks like a drop of blood. Or maybe a tear from a disappointed patron.

Posted by: Rose-Mary Hyslop | 20 September 2011 at 09:21 AM

I would rather sit through The Passenger again than watch ANYTHING by Otto Schenk. Dull! Am surprised they didn't investigate bringing in Richard Jones' staging from Copenhagen - what with Kasper Holten being in charge now...but maybe they did?

Posted by: Justin Chapman | 20 September 2011 at 08:59 PM

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