So boring
(6) “So boring !”
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…
Happy End
Happy End – what on earth went wrong !
HAPPY END. Music by Kurt Weill. Lyrics by Bertolt Brecht. Victorian Opera, Wednesday March 23, 2022. Arts Centre Playhouse, Melbourne. Book by Elisabeth Hauptmann.  English lyrics by Michael Feingold. Directed by Matthew Lutton. Conducted by Phoebe Briggs. …
Adriana
Adriana vs. Adriana: 1-1
Adriana Lecouvreur, opera in four acts by Francesco Cilea. 1902. Libretto by Arturo Colautti, after the play Adrienne Lecouvreur by Eugène Scribe and Ernest Legouvé.     First performance at the Teatro Lirico, Milan,…
Salome
Salome – what happened off stage ?
SALOME. Music by Richard Strauss. Libretto by Oscar Wilde. Salome with a twist on stage at Bard March 18–20. The Bard Conservatory Orchestra joins an exciting principal cast of singers in a semi-staged performance of…