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Performer: Sebastian Baumgarten

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Anna Pirozzi shines as a queen bee Turandot

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Anna Pirozzi and Piero Pretti bring Italian sunshine to Baumgarten’s confused production at the Opernhaus Zürich.

**111
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A cauldron of confusion: Handel’s Belshazzar staged in Zürich

Lawrence Cummings conducts Zurich’s Orchestra La Scintilla in Handel’s oratorio-cum-opera, Belshazzar. The music was celestial; the staging was a bombastic mix of excess and vaudeville.
***11
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Mahagonny in Zurich: a tale of excess and depravity

The backstory doesn’t bode well: three fugitive criminals decide to found a city that will pander to society’s most vital needs: food, sex, warfare, and alcohol.
***11
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