Performer: Grazer Philharmoniker

There was a delicious chocolate-colored texture to the low bass akin to what Great British Bake-Off aficionados would recognize as the foundation of a great Sachertorte.

Not only was the production devoid of Druids or Romans, it turned Bellini’s bel canto masterpiece into an implausible, trite, contemporary crypto-Che Guevara misadventure.  

In einer bunten Inszenierung bringt die Oper Graz Emmerich Kálmáns letztes Werk auf die Bühne.