Opera Gazet - Operarecensies & Gebakkenluchtdetectie

LES CONTES alla Scala

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.

Die Zauberflöte: nu ook in Amsterdam!

Zu Hilfe, zu Hilfe, sonst bin ich verloren!

CHEREMUSHKI. Shostakovich’s unique operetta.

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.

Iconoclasts in opera

Vague modernism coupled with psychological groupthink and underpinned by shocking ignorance and a fierce desire to be part of an imaginary cultural elite.

SUBSIDIZED ABSURDITIES

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.

BORIS GODUNOV at LA SCALA

Boris Godunov Boris Godunov by Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky, opera in four acts (1869 version).… Read More →

Sigiswald Kuijken. Niet iedereen trapt erin !

“We gaan niets actualiseren, want dat vind ik een onderschatting van het publiek.”

Dialogues des Carmélites

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.

Lynn René Bayley writes great book on opera

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.”