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Opera Forward Festival takes on Shell and Antigone in Amsterdam
...It has a hectoring, agitprop feel to it, capped off by a burning house (hello, Greta) and, finally, a massive children’s choir....
March 18, 2024
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Bavarian State Opera’s Die Passagierin — radically revised Holocaust opera is lean and powerful
...She survived Auschwitz, and her play, which went on to become a television drama, a feature film, a novel and an opera, is an examination of her experiences there....
March 12, 2024
FT Live
Business of Entertainment Summit
Capitalizing on Disruption
Thursday, 19 SeptemberLos Angeles, CA
ReviewMusic
Die Jüdin von Toledo at Semperoper Dresden is a dazzling but difficult opera — review
...A huge orchestra, a top-drawer cast, a high-carat stage director and a fine conductor — what’s not to love? Glanert, who has already penned a dozen operas, knows what he is doing....
February 12, 2024
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Rusalka, Staatsoper Berlin — eels and out-of-sync singing sink new production
...His staging for the Staatsoper had the titular water-nymph as a disaffected young woman from a Berlin houseshare, whose lust for the rich boy upstairs causes her to mutate into a kind of distended earwig...
February 6, 2024
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Der goldene Hahn at the Komische Oper Berlin, review — what did we just watch?
...Rufus Didwiszus’s sets and Victoria Behr’s costumes present us with a kind of dismal high camp on the tundra — Dodon’s kingdom is nothing but a patch of dry scrub, with a dead tree for the titular golden...
January 30, 2024
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A weighty yet exhilarating New Year’s Eve concert from the Berliner Philharmoniker
...Petrenko used the considerable force of a Berliner Philharmoniker on top form as a narrator, drawing us into a completely theatrical experience....
January 2, 2024
FT Live
Business of Luxury Summit
Gathering leaders in luxury for the 20th year
Sunday, 19 MayVenice, Italy
InterviewMusic
Conductor Elim Chan: ‘Hong Kong is special. It’s like the hardware is Chinese, but the software is British’
...But even for those born with perfect pitch and a photographic memory, there are no shortcuts. As a pianist, a choral singer, and later a cellist and orchestral player, Chan had a good start....
January 16, 2024
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Silver balls, rippling water and sniggers in The Timeless Moment at the Staatsoper Berlin — review
...After some time, a girl dressed as a beekeeper enters, carrying a fishing net which she uses as a stick to tap her way through the set....
January 8, 2024
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Mary, Queen of Scots, Oper Leipzig — medieval monarch gets steampunk makeover
...Surely, if there was a way to be a woman without playing either a wench or a man, Mary embodied it. Not here. What a lost opportunity. ★★★☆☆ To February 11, oper-leipzig.de...
December 19, 2023
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You can’t keep a cool market down
...A decade ago even Deutsche Bank — once a monster in credit default swaps — stopped trading them....
January 26, 2024
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Operatic miniatures in Berlin are innovative takes on chamber music
...It is a skill set. This was the instant when the evening became more than a chamber music concert....
November 28, 2023
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Five stars for Staatsoper Hamburg’s thrilling, disturbing Salome — review
...Salome instead gives a short punk performance and then strips with a matter-of-fact innocence, like a child at a medical examination, to her underwear....
October 31, 2023
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Médée, Berlin Staatsoper review — Magdalena Kožená is a force of nature as the mythical child-murderer
...This is both a rarity and a musical treat, so why do the three and a quarter hours take so very long to pass?...
November 22, 2023
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Deutsche Opera Berlin’s Il trittico is a crowd-pleasing mess
...A lot....
October 4, 2023
FT SeriesThe world’s best house museums
House museums #59: Keats House
...Oscar Wilde later commented in a sonnet: “Thy name was writ in water — it shall stand / and tears like mine will keep thy memory green.”...
March 16, 2024
FT Live
FTWeekend Festival: U.S. edition
Where the Financial Times weekend paper comes to life
Saturday, 4 MayThe REACH, at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, F Street Northwest, Washington, DC, USA
ReviewMusic
Aida, Staatsoper Berlin — clowns, fruit and fur coats cannot hide bad singing
...There are clowns everywhere, and a bunch of fur coats. Radamès smears himself in cut fruit, and everyone gets a machine gun....
October 6, 2023
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Five stars for Das Floß der Medusa, Berlin — Henze’s oratorio staged with breathtaking skill
...He opens with a tableau vivant of the Géricault painting, on a raft in the vast pool of dark water....
September 18, 2023
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Iván Fischer conducts the Royal Concertgebouw in a spectacular Berlin concert — review
...Under Fischer’s direction, there was a kind of modesty to their Mahler....
August 29, 2023
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Kering’s €1.3bn real estate bet is a pricey distraction Premium content
...Seen in this light, the push to secure prime real estate is essentially a round of beggar thy neighbour for luxury companies....
April 4, 2024
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Die Erdfabrik at the Ruhrtriennale — multimedia performance is both clever and vacuous
...The venue is a performance in itself. A steampunk fantasy of gigantic machinery in a series of interlocking foyers gives way to a cavernous concrete hall....
August 14, 2023
Music
The Indian Queen at the Salzburg Festival review — too much control
...We’re in the time of the Conquistadors, and a young Aztec princess is given as a concubine to a Spanish general....
August 3, 2023
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Macbeth at Salzburg Festival — thrills, spills and impressive vocal stunts
...Krzysztof Warlikowski’s Salzburg Festival production of Verdi’s Macbeth opens with a black and white film of a woman abandoning her baby in a field....
August 1, 2023
ReviewAlbums
Cassie Kinoshi’s Seed: Gratitude — from plaintive to triumphant
...Continuing without pause, part two fades into a stunning twist-and-turn feature for Shirley Tetteh’s guitar....
March 13, 2024
ReviewMusic
Bayreuth’s Parsifal — the staging is a train-wreck, the singing superb
...Bayreuth has assembled a definitive cast for this train-wreck of a production....
July 26, 2023
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Le nozze di Figaro at Salzburg Festival — brutal but brilliant
...Count Almaviva is a mafia boss, Figaro one of his henchmen. Bartolo is a crooked cleric with a heroin habit, also on his payroll....
July 31, 2023

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