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