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…
Thaïs
THAÏS at the Scala
Thaïs, inspired by Anatole France’s novel and staged for the first time at the Palais Garnier in 1894, has been staged at La Scala just once in 1942 under the baton of Gino…
Così fan tutte
Così fan Tutte in San Diego
Così fan tutte Così fan tutte by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Opera buffa in two acts. 1789. Libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte. First performance at the Burgtheater, Vienna, on 16th January 1790. Seen:…
Parterre Box
What a sad mentality…
This is an article from January 2022, also published on the Opera Gazet Facebook-page under the title “The Other Unstoppable Virus” that undermines the Regietheater. The only stated similarity to any other…