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Performer: Monteverdi Continuo Ensemble

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Music is the food of thought in L'Orfeo at the Theater an der Wien

The last production I saw of L’Orfeo explored the idea of music as a manipulative force, suggesting disturbing consequences to the docility it can engender. Director Claus Guth is less concerned with Orfeo the musician, and makes minimal acknowledgement of the work’s pastoral and mythic elements.
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Oper und Schauspiel in Il ritorno / Das Jahr des magischen Denkens

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Il ritorno von Claudio Monteverdi und Joan Didions magisches Denken über Warten und Spannen der Zeit: eine bemerkenswerte Symbiose gelingt dem Regisseur Christopher Rüping im Festival Ja, Mai der Bayerischen Staatsoper
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Resignificando lo grotesco: La Calisto en el Teatro Real

Depravación, lujuria y extravagancia se imponen en el Teatro Real de la mano de David Alden para mostrarnos la hermosa música de Cavalli.
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