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...Richard Strauss arguably invented an ancestor of reality TV when he put his domestic life on stage with Intermezzo in 1924....
...May 12; further information and tickets here ‘Elektra’, Oper Frankfurt Director Claus Guth’s 2023 production of Richard Strauss’s adaptation of the Sophocles tragedy returns to the Frankfurt Opera, with...
...The Australian Kosky, former intendant at the Komische Oper Berlin, comes with huge experience....
...★★☆☆☆ To December 29, komische-oper-berlin.de...
...It represented the high point of his career; alongside Richard Strauss, Schreker, an Austrian Jew, was the most performed living composer in Germany....
...Mime, dressed up as Richard Wagner, hobbles around him grimacing and gesticulating. Their hovel is made from the suitcases of refugees....
...From the mid-1990s he was based at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein in Dūsseldorf/Duisburg and has been a guest conductor at the international companies in Amsterdam, Hamburg and Berlin....
...Other recent car park operas, such as the Deutsche Oper’s Wagner, never thought of that. Imagine this as a drive-in movie, but showing Puccini instead of a Hitchcock classic or a Star Wars marathon....
...The Komische Oper, Berlin, whisked us away to the world of Yiddish operetta, an entertaining novelty, at least for the allotted 15 minutes....
...It was closed by the Nazis after star tenor Richard Tauber had been first heckled, then beaten up by Brownshirts, and it was never staged again. Until now....
...That is not the case with the Stadttheater Giessen’s first ever world premiere, Richard van Schoor’s Alp Arslan....
...The programming of Orest, which had been performed at Vienna’s Neue Oper in 2014, does not count as visionary....
...For his new production at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, Ole Anders Tandberg avoids any obvious references to current politics, instead setting the action in a Norwegian military academy some time around the...
...At the height of his opera career, between 1917 and 1921, the Austrian composer enjoyed more fame than Richard Strauss. He was subsequently ousted by the Nazis....
...with the two in the east, Barenboim’s Staatsoper and the Komische Oper....
...Kosky, who runs Berlin’s Komische Oper, sets out to find the Lortzing and the Shakespeare in Wagner’s heavy-handed comedy, the funny and the not-so-funny in the piece that, perhaps more than any other, became...
...But did it really need the painstaking restoration of Richard Paulick’s 1955 GDR phoney Rococo interior?...
...Opera, to March 6, laopera.org; Komische Oper, Berlin, to June 14, komische-oper-berlin.de; Oper am Rhein, Germany, to June 19, operamrhein.de; Finnish National Opera, Helsinki, February 26-April 30, oopperabaletti.fi...
...First staged by Deutsche Oper am Rhein, it sees the opera as a slice of everyday realism set in a modern-day warehouse, workplace of the human drone....
...The most substantial artistic statement comes with the premiere of Morgen und Abend by Austrian composer Georg Friedrich Haas, a co-commission with Deutsche Oper Berlin....
...The ENO is a showcase for local talent and theatrical innovation, with the current hit run of Richard Jones’s production of Wagner’s Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg just the latest example in a long string...
...komische-oper-berlin.de staatsperette-dresden.de...
...Stemme does not really connect with the playful, wanton side of Salome and the fine Deutsche Oper orchestra could have done with a sharper balance, especially for the wind....
...Nina Stemme, supported by Deutsche Oper Berlin, will sing Salome and Semyon Bychkov conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra in Elektra....
...La traviata was revolutionary in its time for spotlighting Alexandre Dumas’ recently dead lover, while Weimar Germany produced Zeitoper – “opera of the time” – in the 1920s....
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