Lucia
White-Trash “Lucia” at the MET
Lucia di Lammermoor by Gaetano Donizetti. Dramma tragico in three acts. 1835. Libretto by Salvadore Cammarano, after Sir Walter Scott’s novel The Bride of Lammermoor. First performance at the Teatro S Carlo,…
Baden-Badeb
EASTER FESTIVAL BADEN-BADEN 2023
EASTER FESTIVAL BADEN-BADEN 2023 – BERLINER PHILHARMONIKER Program 2023: Berliner Philharmoniker, Kirill Petrenko and Richard Strauss’s Die Frau Ohne Schatten. Together with the Berliner Philharmoniker and chief conductor Kirill Petrenko, the 2023 Baden-Baden…
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. …