{"id":4,"date":"2005-02-19T23:54:56","date_gmt":"2005-02-20T04:54:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/63.247.138.3\/~drweevil\/?p=4"},"modified":"2007-09-03T16:49:45","modified_gmt":"2007-09-03T20:49:45","slug":"product-placement-in-opera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/?p=4","title":{"rendered":"Product Placement in Opera?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The DVD  of Kurt Weill&#8217;s <em>Seven Deadly Sins<\/em>, directed by Peter Sellars and conducted by Kent Nagano, features a prominently-placed bottle of Heinz ketchup in (where else?) the Gluttony scene.  I suppose that counts as local color for the original French audience.<\/p>\n<p>Best lines in the subtitles:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#147;Lazy bones are for the devil&#146;s stockpot.&#148;<\/li>\n<li>&#147;There&#146;s no market for hippos in Philadelphia.&#148;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Now I have to get hold of the libretto to see how accurately these were translated.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The DVD of Kurt Weill&#8217;s Seven Deadly Sins, directed by Peter Sellars and conducted by Kent Nagano, features a prominently-placed bottle of Heinz ketchup in (where else?) the Gluttony scene. I suppose that counts as local color for the original French audience. Best lines in the subtitles: &#147;Lazy bones are for the devil&#146;s stockpot.&#148; &#147;There&#146;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}