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La bohème als Märchen der Belle Époque
Der Bühnenbildner und Regisseur Ben Baur inszeniert Puccinis Oper La bohème als das, was sie ist: ein intimes und emotionales Bühnenspiel.
A punk, post-industrial Siegfried in Palermo
Despite this mis-en-scene’s lack of intensity, this Siegfried closed the 2015 season of the Teatro Massimo with an outstanding musical performance.
Edinburgh International Festival: Opéra de Lyon's Fidelio from deepest space – with Segways
The lights dimmed and an announcer explained that following the destruction of earth’s ecosystem, there had been a scramble to rocket bases and a rush to transport surviving life to the nearest planet, Mars.
Dresden's Semperoper an ideal house for Tannhäuser
It is customary in German-speaking countries to perform Wagner’s Parsifal on Good Friday, so it was quite a bold move for the Semperoper in Dresden to put on Tannhäuser instead, especially in Peter Konwitschny’s strongly anti-Christian production.