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Context of the composition
There are a few basic points to bear in mind when discussing Fidelio, the first of which, already mentioned above, is…
Contexts
In Naples, Vassily Barkhatov staged an impressive performance, with the set design and the development of the chorus filling the space, even though, to…
Listen with interest to the conversation between Vladimir Jurowski and Barrie Kosky, interviewed by Christopher Warmuth about this production (in English with English subtitles).
https://youtu.be/C3zTwCLQEOs
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In this case, McVicar succeeds in making an utterly far-fetched and bizarre plot attractive, which has sometimes justified productions in which the characters have…
Again war, again suffering, necessary to nobody, utterly uncalled for : again fraud, again the stupefaction and brutalization of man.
Lev Tolstoy, 1904
This quotation from Tolstoy…
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William Shakespeare's play provided opera with sufficiently powerful literary and dramaturgical material to inspire the Romantic generation with powerful masterpieces, from Bellini to Gounod…
"Dreaming does not preclude thinking", says Mariame Clément in an interview about her production of Massenet's Cendrillon for the Paris Opera. One would like…
