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...The action takes place in a black box of a set, with stylised pictures of Paris or Switzerland in sepia tones in the background, and Anna Maria Heinreich’s period costumes – Swiss gear with brightly coloured...
...Vito Priante, clad only in shorts (costumes by Anne Marie Heinreich in both operas), stresses the Prisoner’s youth in an athletic, vitally sung performance, and Kim Begley as the Grand Inquisitor chillingly...
...The costumes (Anna Maria Heinreich) are bad enough – fusty, mothballed recreations of period style – but Ferdinand Wögerbauer’s sets are so cheap and awful that you wonder if you are party to some perverse...
...This Mazeppa, designed by Ferdinand Wögerbauer and Anna Maria Heinreich, looks pretty – and pretty expensive, with plenty of set changes....
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