Like Nietzsche’s moustache or Wagner’s sideburns, Tchaikovsky’s characteristic beard is an immediately recognisable feature of the composer. In the Dutch National Opera´s production of Pique Dame, the character, biography and sexual orientation of Pyotr Ilyich […]
Under the title ‘Young Directors’, Elliott Carter’s 1999 opera What Next? and Leonard Bernstein’s 1952 opera Trouble in Tahiti are currently performed as a double bill at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein. The combination is […]
Stefan Herheim’s Essen production of Don Giovanni, which earned the Norwegian director his first election (of three) as opera director of the year by Opernwelt in 2007, still impresses almost ten years after its premiere. […]
A little over a week ago, The Aalto-Musiktheater in Essen witnessed this season’s final performance of a new production of The Greek Passion. It is to be hoped that Jiří Heřman’s gripping production of p […]
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