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Two Scandals in Paris

Sunday, December 23rd, 2012

By: Frank Cadenhead The two Parisian scandals on everyone’s lips in December were operatic in scope but also happened to be about opera. After all, Paris is still a city where artists are the center of continuing debate with their audiences. How timely this is since, in a few days, 2013 arrives with the centenary [...]

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In Bayreuth, Persisting with the New

Friday, August 31st, 2012

By Rebecca Schmid „Kinder, schaff Neues,“ (Children, create something new) Wagner wrote in an adage frequently quoted by stage directors in Germany. In Bayreuth, 136 years after the founding of his festival, the spirit is alive and well. Provocatively-minded Regietheater, for lack of a better blanket term, has come to stamp the recently installed administration [...]

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