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Julietta, Bohuslav Martinů’s seldom performed surrealistic opera of dreams and lost identity recently premiered in a new Zurich production.

Zurich’s Opera House takes on Die Frau ohne Schatten, one of Richard Strauss’ most convoluted and technically demanding works. 

The German thinker Theodor Adorno once wrote that a musical setting of Georg Büchner’s play Woyzeck, considered in its own literary right a masterpiece, may well have proved redundant.

Hengelbrock presentó un concierto meticulosamente preparado sobre una partitura estudiada hasta sus últimos rincones.

Mozarts hoffnungsvoll tröstenden Worten verhilft Hengelbrock durch Theatralik und lebendigem Hauch zu beeindruckender Realität.

Calixto Bieito, fiel a su estilo y tradición, se entrega a mostrar la caída en desgracia de la protagonista de Die Soldaten del modo más directo y descarnado posible.