Zwei Frauen, zwei Welten – gegensätzlich präsentiert in einem einzigen, mehrstöckigen Bühnenbild. Eine der Welten ist das makellose, weiße Deck eines Schiffes der 1960er Jahre auf dem Weg nach Brasilien, und darunter, wo sonst der Schiffsrumpf sein könnte, befindet sich die graue, trostlose Welt von Auschwitz.
If an evocative and provocative crowd-pleaser is your preferred summertime fare, then catch the new production of Wagner’s The Flying Dutchman at Glimmerglass Festival. Dutchman was Wagner’s first unabashed hit, deservedly so.
Goosebumps, gasps of horror, sobs and tears. That's what operagoers will experience at the East Coast premiere of Séance on a Wet Afternoon presented by New York City Opera. It is an eerie, emotional roller coaster of a show that grips you with the force of demon possession and doesn’t let go.
For a long period, Charles Gounod's Faust was one of the most frequently performed operas, its popularity due to a lusciously romantic score which contains a series of showstopping set-piece arias, many of which have found their way into popular culture (to give just one example, the Jewel Song in Act III has a starring role in the Tintin story The Castafiore Emerald).
