Performer: Markus Bothe

Markus Bothe’s Botticelli-inspired production fuses tableau vivant aesthetics with Jörg Halubek’s surgical musical precision, offering a peerless, vivid tribute to the fragrant dawn of opera.

Jaquino dons the coat of the ousted Pizarro in this Volksoper production of Fidelio, clearly indicating that just as one evil head has been (literally) cut off, another is growing in its place… 

Der Mannheimer Monteverdi-Zyklus beginnt mit einem fulminanten Feuerwerk, das man gesehen haben muss.