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Commissioned by the Staatsoper Unter den Linden, Oscar Strasnoy and Sigrid Behrens' new chamber opera Robinson turns its source into an immersive meditation on modern isolation and loneliness.

Musically and scenically sumptuous melodrama with a solid cast in Karlsruhe.

  Conducted by Neal Goren, the musicians breathed across and blew notelessly into their instruments, creating layers of sounds that grew ever more intriguing as the repetition of the word “nevermore” grew ever more sinister.