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Too many mirrors spoil the Staatsoper Berlin's Hippolyte et Aricie

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“I don’t like spending three hours of opera having bright lights shone directly into my face”
Reviewed at Staatsoper Unter den Linden, Berlin on 25 November 2018
Rameau, Hippolyte et Aricie
Staatsoper Berlin
Sir Simon Rattle, Conductor
Aletta Collins, Director
Olafur Eliasson, Set Designer, Costume Designer
Anna Prohaska, Aricie
Elsa Dreisig, Diane
Magdalena Kožená, Phèdre
Reinoud Van Mechelen, Hippolyte
Michael Smallwood, Mercure
Peter Rose, Pluton
Gyula Orendt, Thésée
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