Performer: Jennifer O'Loughlin

Musikalisch hochkarätig, szenisch problematisch und durch umfangreichen Balletteinsatz überlastet: Magdalena Fuchsbergers neue Alcina-Inszenierung am Gärtnerplatztheater in München.

The message of Voltaire’s novel Candide, ou l’Optimisme is that rationality and reason, rather than custom, faith or authoritative orders should determine all human activity, and although this quintessence of the Age of Enlightenment sounds self-evident nowadays, a visit to the newspaper kiosk shows us otherwise: a lot of luridly-titled guidebooks and magazines try to talk us into believing that a