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Several of Giuseppe Verdi's operas drew inspiration from Spanishculture. Based on the chivalric drama "El Trovador" by Antonio GarciaGutiérrez, "Il Trovatore", together with "Rigoletto"...
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As a distillation of "Erdgeist" and "Die Büchse der Pandora" by FrankWedekind, Alban Berg's opera is a breathtaking dance of death aroundthe ever seductive...
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When, in 1900, Giacomo Puccini attended David Belasco’s play "Madame Butterfly" in London, he found it to be ideal material for an opera. Although...
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Based on the theatre of our compratiot Michel de Ghelderode, Ligeti’sopera evoces the fantastic and demonic world of Jeroen Bosch and JamesEnsor.
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In Mozart's and Schikaneder's "Die Zauberflöte" different traditionscome together. The themes of love conquering all perils en theintervention of good and bad in man's...
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The best thing that ever happened to Richard Strauss was his encounterwith Oscar Wilde's "Salomé". The concentrated drama of Strauss'symphonic poems was the perfect...
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Janácek 'animal opera' makes a connection of intimate images andthoughts of death and rebirth, about old age and spring. The centralfigure is a little...
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"Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg" could be seen as the comical versionof Tannhäuser. The Meistersingers are with their competitions the closeminded colleagues of the Meistersingers...
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With this La Fanciulla del West Flanders Opera adds a new chapter toit's Puccinicycle which was organised with conductor Silvio Varviso anddirector Robert Carsen....
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Wim Henderickx ventures into the Iliad’s theatre of war. Achilleus issulking and refuses to take part in the battles. Not even Odysseus orAias can...
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In his novel Satyricon , Petronius paints a merciless picture ofthe parvenus that swarmed around Emperor Nero. Bruno Maderna, the lategodfather...
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Carmen , the best-known title of the French opera repertoire, lives in collective memory as an opera imbued with southern passion and...
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Being introduced to Oscar Wilde’s Salomé was one of the bestthings that could have happened to Richard Strauss. The compact...
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Ariadne auf Naxos is undoubtedly one of the most original creations produced by the collaboration between Richard Strauss and librettist Hugo von...
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Following the successful world creation of Richard III last season, Flanders Opera is again programming a work by the Italian composer Giorgio Battistelli....
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Gaetano Donizetti was determined to present an opera after Schiller’s tragedy Maria Stuart (1800) at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples,...
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The ‘Vorabend’ of Der Ring des Nibelungen presents the general framework of the four music dramas. We are submerged in a...
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After entering Walhalla at the end of Das Rheingold , Wotan has been trying to find ways of winning back Alberich’s...
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Flanders Opera’s Fellini cycle – with Satyricon (Maderna), Prova d’Orchestra (Battistelli) and Aladdin en de Wonderlamp...
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With Götterdammerung Wagner's Ring cycle comes to a close. This promises to be a spectacular conclusion to the highly acclaimed...