Valentin Jar Valentin Jar. A great friend and an opera singer with a wonderful career…
Opera is not a museum !
Direction and music on the one hand and the libretto on the other are barbarically made into unnatural enemies.
Pavarotti meets Alberti is een professionele voorstelling die draait om muziek en verlucht wordt met enkele vermakelijke en soms wat minder vermakelijke sketches.
Zu Hilfe, zu Hilfe, sonst bin ich verloren!
Vague modernism coupled with psychological groupthink and underpinned by shocking ignorance and a fierce desire to be part of an imaginary cultural elite.
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.
“We gaan niets actualiseren, want dat vind ik een onderschatting van het publiek.”
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.”
"The strength of Vocality lies in our interaction with the audience: we are interested in…