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At the Theatre Royal Stratford East, the student group made a convincing case for the French version of this gripping work.

When one thinks of Haydn, opera really isn’t the first thing that comes to mind. It’s the symphonies, the string quartets, even his oratorios you think of first, not his operas. And yet he wrote 15 of them. L’isola disabitata is the eleventh of the bunch, written for the Eszterházy court in 1779, and it was this opera The Norwegian Opera and Ballet (DNO) chose as their 2012/2013 season opener.

Eine eingängige Bildersprache, wirksame Wechsel zwischen spektakulären und intimen Szenen sowie die hohe Qualität der musikalischen Realisierung machen die neue Traviata auf der Seebühne der Bregenzer Festspiele zu einem unvergesslichen Erlebnis.