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Sin City meets silent film: Hindemith’s Cardillac at the Staatsoper Wien

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“a breath of fresh air... grotesque, demonic, brilliantly-gilded air”
Reviewed at Wiener Staatsoper, Vienna on 22 June 2015
Hindemith, Cardillac
Vienna State Opera
Michael Boder, Conductor
Sven-Eric Bechtolf, Director
Rolf Glittenberg, Set Designer
Marianne Glittenberg, Costume Designer
Angela Denoke, Cardillac's daughter
Olga Bezsmertna, The Lady
Matthias Klink, Knight
Herbert Lippert, Officer
Tomasz Konieczny, Cardillac
Alexandru Moisiuc, Provost marshal
Wolfgang Bankl, The gold merchant
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