Friday, February 1st, 2013
By Rebecca Schmid Richard Wagner has managed to slowly dominate the scene internationally in recent seasons, but with the official arrival of his bicentenary, the saturation in Germany has only begun. Nürnberg, Leipzig, Munich and Dresden have unveiled new exhibits; in the latter’s case, an entire new building. A stream of publications has hit the […]
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Friday, December 21st, 2012
By ANDREW POWELL Published: December 21, 2012 MUNICH — They all laughed eight years ago when Bavarian State Opera set Verdi’s Rigoletto on the Planet of the Apes, and the production fast vanished. Naturally, then, the return of the deformed ducal jester in a new régie last Saturday (Dec. 15) promised relative normalcy, perhaps even […]
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Tags: Árpád Schilling, Bavarian State Opera, Bayerische Staatsoper, Bayerischer Staatsopernchor, Dimitry Ivashchenko, Franco Vassallo, Giuseppe Verdi, Joseph Calleja, Kritik, Marco Armiliato, München, Munich, Nadia Krasteva, Patricia Petibon, Review, Rigoletto
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