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As in Verdi’s other operas to librettos by Friedrich Schiller, "Luisa Miller" centres on the conflict between individual freedom and political power. Luisa Miller,...
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La délivrance inutile was the original subtitle of Ariane et Barbe-Bleue , the play that Maurice Maeterlinck wrote with the...
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Whereas in Le Nozze di Figaro , the notorious barber and jack-of-all-trades thwarts Count Almaviva in his amorous adventures, in Rossini’s...
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Waut Koeken has made a children’s version, in Dutch, of Mozart’s fable Die Zauberflöte . The young director deliberately stuck very...
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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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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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With his chamber opera, The Rape of Lucretia , BenjaminBritten follows the path of the classical tragedy. The intimacy of thework...