Ultz‘s opening image for Martin Duncan‘s production announces itself without ceremony: a Turkish crescent on a blazing field, the geometry of civilizational conflict made literal, kitsch flirting with provocation. But…
NORMA | Bayerische Staatsoper
There is no opera that punishes imprecision more ruthlessly than Norma. Every exposed line, every phrase of cantabile over the slow chromatic harmonies Bellini stretches beneath his priestess, demands absolute…