Saturday, June 21, 2014

Lady in the Dark: Vergiss für einmal den Weltschmerz

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The many selves of Liza Elliott: Lady in the Dark Act I Photo © Staatstheater Mainz/Martina Pipprich Matthias Fontheim, departing Inten...
Thursday, June 19, 2014

Interval Adventures: Firenze!

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As Gianni Schicchi reminds us, Florence is a beautiful city. I was delighted to have the opportunity to revisit it, with an academic conf...
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Monday, May 26, 2014

Voglio fare il gentiluomo: Mainz's Don Giovanni

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Parasite or political protestor? Don G. on the margins. Photo © Staatstheater Mainz/Martina Pipprich In Mainz's new Don Giovanni...
Tuesday, May 20, 2014

Reading List: rein GOLD

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Elfriede Jelinek 's 2013 Rein Gold is a text of many complexities, not the least of which is its genre. The prose work is subtitled ...
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Thursday, May 15, 2014

Tosca: ne voglio altra mercede

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Budapest's opera house, central stair The Hungarian State Opera is a beautiful house. "I don't say it is nicer than Vienn...
Sunday, May 11, 2014

Miláčku, znáš mne, znáš? Rusalka in Budapest

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My experience of the  Budapest Festival Orchestra  reads like an optimistic statistician's assessment of the effects of orchestra tou...
Saturday, May 3, 2014

Trug des Herzens, Traum der Ahnung: Tristan und Isolde in Frankfurt

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Liebesnacht: Ryan/Wilson in Act II Photo © Oper Frankfurt/Wolfgang Runkel It seemed appropriate to me to begin the month of May with F...
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