Posts from overseas. Although many British critics were also shocked by the scene, Opera Gazet’s fierce, principled activism against this production drew considerable criticism within the British opera community, including on English-language forums and platforms. The accusation of prudishness: British opera lovers and progressive critics accused Keegel of having \’narrow-minded, Victorian morality\’.
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Akhnaten is one of Philip Glass’s three large-scale operas based on a “big idea,” in…
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Fidelio. Music by Ludwig van Beethoven. Original libretto by Joseph Sonnleithner & Georg Friedrich Sonnleithner.…