Valentin Jar Valentin Jar. A great friend and an opera singer with a wonderful career… Read More →
Much has been written about the historical backgrounds of the Regietheater in opera, also in… Read More →
Opera is not a museum !
Read More →Direction and music on the one hand and the libretto on the other are barbarically made into unnatural enemies.
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CHEREMUSHKI. The ensemble cast was uniformly excellent.
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Pavarotti meets Alberti is een professionele voorstelling die draait om muziek en verlucht wordt met enkele vermakelijke en soms wat minder vermakelijke sketches.
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Les contes alla Scala. Molto brava, nel ruolo di Antonia, Eleonora Buratto che porta avanti, insieme a pochi, pochissimi, altri, la tradizione della scuola di canto italiana.
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Zu Hilfe, zu Hilfe, sonst bin ich verloren!
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The full title of Shostakovich’s operetta is Moscow, Cheremushki (Москва, Черемушки), and it was a direct, explicit response to the very specific reality of the housing crisis in Soviet Russia in the 1950s.
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Vague modernism coupled with psychological groupthink and underpinned by shocking ignorance and a fierce desire to be part of an imaginary cultural elite.
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An unprecedented low point was the unsanitary travesty “Der Freischütz,” performed in 2022 at The Dutch National Opera, prepared in the moldy cooking pot of greaseball and narcissist Kirill Serebrennikov, who seems destined to become house director at DNO.
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Boris Godunov Boris Godunov by Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky, opera in four acts (1869 version).… Read More →
“We gaan niets actualiseren, want dat vind ik een onderschatting van het publiek.”
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All in all, Emma Dante’s direction is acceptable. She limits herself to following the story without trying to force the libretto in search of extravagant readings.
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Lynn: “After 10 months of intense work, I have finally finished my new book, “Opera as Drama II,” which illuminates the history of the art form from the perspective of drama rather than entertainment.”
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LUCREZIA BORGIA Donizetti's Lucrezia Borgia by Gaetano Donizetti. Libretto: Felice Romani, after Victor Hugo. Athenaeum… Read More →
"The strength of Vocality lies in our interaction with the audience: we are interested in… Read More →
Simon Boccanegra. Opera in a prologue and three acts by Giuseppe Verdi. 1856. Revised for… Read More →
Akhnaten is one of Philip Glass’s three large-scale operas based on a “big idea,” in… Read More →
The Decadent Decay Of Opera
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