Month: January 2023

Iconoclasten in de opera

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.

Gesubsidieerde absurditeiten

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.