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A gorgeously sung and strangely staged Il Trionfo at the Staatsoper Berlin

By Christie Franke, 11 June 2014
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Reviewed at Schillertheater: Großer Saal, Berlin on 7 June 2014
Programme
Handel, Il trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno, HWV 46a
Performers
Staatsoper Berlin
Sébastien Rouland, Conductor
Jürgen Flimm, Director
Erich Wonder, Set Designer
Sylvia Schwartz, Bellezza
Inga Kalna, Piacere
Delphine Galou, Disinganno
Charles Workman, Tempo
Les Musiciens du Louvre
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Christie Franke
Christie Franke
Christie Franke is a Berlin-based writer and opera lover. Her blog, Tiny Doom’s Opernpalais, chronicles her adventures as an opera-lover and writer, serving as discussion ground for character profiles, operatic plot holes, and the magic of music in everyday life.