Pavarotti
Pavarotti meets Alberti

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
LES CONTES alla Scala

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.

Cheremushki
CHEREMUSHKI. Shostakovich’s unique operetta.

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.

Iconoclasten in de opera
Iconoclasts in opera

Vague modernism coupled with psychological groupthink and underpinned by shocking ignorance and a fierce desire to be part of an imaginary cultural elite.

Gesubsidieerde absurditeiten
SUBSIDIZED ABSURDITIES

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.

Boris Godunov
BORIS GODUNOV at LA SCALA
Boris Godunov   Boris Godunov by Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky, opera in four acts (1869 version). Libretto by Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky. Teatro alla Scala, new production. Attended by Opera Gazet: Dec. 7, premiere.…
Dialogues des Carmélites
Dialogues des Carmélites

All in all, Emma Dante’s direction is acceptable. She limits herself to following the story without trying to force the libretto in search of extravagant readings.