Valentin Jar Valentin Jar. A great friend and an opera singer with a wonderful career is gone. Not treated as his status demanded, cast aside and betrayed. We will not discuss this…
Much has been written about the historical backgrounds of the Regietheater in opera, also in Opera Gazet. We can deal with historical explanations exhaustively as much as we like, but in the…
Opera is not a museum !
Direction and music on the one hand and the libretto on the other are barbarically made into unnatural enemies.
CHEREMUSHKI. The ensemble cast was uniformly excellent.
Pavarotti meets Alberti is een professionele voorstelling die draait om muziek en verlucht wordt met enkele vermakelijke en soms wat minder vermakelijke sketches.
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.
Zu Hilfe, zu Hilfe, sonst bin ich verloren!
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.
