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Chiaroscuro extinguished: a self-indulgent Poppea in Copenhagen
Christoph Marthaler’s staging of Monteverdi’s Poppea for the Royal Danish Opera is a study in boredom.
World première of Elena Mendoza's City of Lies
Spanish composer Elena Mendoza presents a hermetic piece of contemporary theatre that is at the same time a disappointing opera and a worthy musical exploration of literary universe of Juan Carlos Onetti
The road less travelled: The Hebrides in Edinburgh
The Hebrides Ensemble delight a Queen's Hall audience with novel takes on Schoenberg's Verklärte Nacht and Stravinsky's L'Histoire du Soldat.
The (Surrealist) Tales of Hoffmann
With this mesmerising version of Les contes d'Hoffmann, Marthaler has proved (as Offenbach did more than one century ago) that it is possible to love Romanticism through its satire.
Fragmente des Grauens: House of Usher in Mannheim
Zum Fürchten gut: Anna Viebrock gelingt mit ihrem Musiktheaterprojekt ein Opernthriller im Stil des Altmeisters Alfred Hitchcock.