His ugliness is remarkable ā “a hideous gnome” according to Alma [Mahler] ā but his eyes radiate intelligence, and like all those she touched with her wing, he has an…
ARIADNE AUF NAXOS |Ā OpĆ©ra de Rouen Normandie
Letās sublimate the metamorphosis into a stylistic kaleidoscope! Ariadne auf Naxos is one of the happiest collaborations between Hugo von Hofmannsthal and Richard Strauss. Halfway between Der Rosenkavalier and Die Frau ohne Schatten, between mythological…
VÄC MAKROPULOS | Staatsoper Unter den Linden
Co tedy stojĆ za to?Ā – Nic! Zhola nic!Ā (“- So what is it worth? – Nothing! Absolutely nothing!”) It is with these words that, in Act II, Emilia Marty (or/and Eugenia…
HEROĆNE | OpĆ©ra National de Lorraine
First and foremost, you have to disobey: that’s the first duty when the order is threatening and cannot be explained. (Ariane et Barbe Bleue or La DĆ©livrance inutile, act 1.)…
LE DOMINO NOIR (The Black Domino) | OpƩra Comique
A typical example of the opĆ©ra-comique style of the first half of the 19thĀ century, The Black Domino (Le Domino Noir) is the ninth most performed opera at the OpĆ©ra Comique…
SALOME | Wiener Staatsoper
Strauss’s first masterpiece premiered in 1905, Salome (op. 54) is an opera of rare power, unfolding continuously in one act, a pure fin de siĆØcle product, the first step towards expressionism, eminently…