A scene from Alban Berg’s Lulu, which Kentridge directed at the Metropolitan Opera in New York, 2015.
via Art News
Last year, Carnegie Hall audiences experienced a heavy dose of South African wonder man William Kentridge, plying his tricks and talents, mind and matter, as part of “Ubuntu, the Music and Arts of South Africa,” his homeland. Turning Carnegie Hall into a warm and cozy setting, he began his performance by demurring that he felt somewhat out of place there since he’s an artist and not a composer and the production was billed as an opera—sort of. Which led him to a recollection of a New Yorker cartoon in which an elephant sits down at a piano and tells how uncomfortable he feels performing, because, as he explains, “I’m not a pianist“ (pause) “I’m a flautist.”
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