Janáček’s The Diary of One Who Disappeared staged in Munich

By Edward Sava-Segal, 09 February 2021

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“Janáček clearly encouraged – via the simple stage directions he provided – a theatrical approach”

Reviewed at Nationaltheater, Munich on 8 February 2021

Janáček, The Diary of One Who Disappeared

Friederike Blum, Director

Pavol Breslik, Tenor

Daria Proszek, Mezzo-soprano

Sarah Gilford, Soprano

Mirjam Mesak, Soprano

Yajie Zhang, Mezzo-soprano

Róbert Pechanec, Piano

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Edward Sava-Segal

Edward has been living in New York for the last 25 years, one of the reasons being the extraordinarily rich cultural life in this city. He has studied piano and classical music in his early years. He switched later on to computer science and data architecture but he kept an unwavering interest in following the classical music phenomenon here in New York and in his travels. Edward occasionally reviews fine arts events for the most prestigious literary magazine in Romania, his home country.