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Putting a gloss on suffering: Sanström's Performance
Sven-David Sandström’s new chamber opera fails to provide an authentic voice to a trio of 19th-century female mental patients.
A chic Così fan tutte at La Scala
Guth's production is beautiful to look at, but fails to bring out the best in Mozart's drama.
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.