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When is The Nutcracker not The Nutcracker? When's it's mashed together with Tchaikovsky's Iolanta to represent the blind princess’ inner world in a dark interpretation. 

In his whole career as an opera composer Puccini only wrote one pure comedy, Gianni Schicchi, and even that forms part of his trilogy Il Trittico, of which the other parts could hardly be more tragic. However, La bohème is also a comedy in its own way, a comedy cut short by tragedy.

Mariame Clément inszeniert mit Petticoats aus den Fünfzigern am Operettenwalzer vorbei.

Harry Kupfers Regiearbeit aus dem Jahr 1984 überzeugt ebenso wie Rebecca Nelsen als Mimì.

Lotte de Beer wagt ein Capriccio aus Peter Tschakowskys Jolanthe und dem Nussknacker. Durchweg unterhaltsam, aber nicht bahnbrechend.

C’est au tour du Centre Culturel de Katowice de soutenir la création de Pawel Mykietyn : l’opéra La Montagne Magique, commandé par la Fondation Malta pour son festival en juin dernier, à Poznan.