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Blending magic with loss: Herheim’s reimagined Amahl in Vienna

Wiener Sängerknabe (Amahl) and Dshamilja Kaiser (Amahl's Mother) © Monika and Karl Forster
There is magic aplenty in director Stefan Herheim’s bold recontextualization of Gian Carlo Menotti's holiday opera. 

This is all: Britten's The Rape of Lucretia at the Norwegian National Opera

Britten’s opera The Rape of Lucretia is, as the title implies, not an easy opera subject-wise. It is based on André Obey’s play Le viol de Lucrèce, which in turn is partially based on Shakespeare’s poem The Rape of Lucrece. This was Britten’s third opera, and the first of his so-called chamber operas, operas with small orchestras and small casts.