Kurt Gysen
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‘This opera will win me a martyr’s crown’, wrote Beethoven about"Fidelio". The difficulties encountered by the main opera characters ontheir way to freedom was...
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Bellini’s "Il Pirata" is considered the prototype of the early RomanticItalian opera. Situated in the 13th century at the time of the bloodyuprising of...
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With this Idomeneo , Mozart follows in the footsteps of Gluck’sreform of the Italian opera seria. The contemplative nature of theserious...
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Giovanna d’Arco , Verdi’s first opera, adapted from a play by Friedrich Schiller, was written after Nabucco and ...
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According to Giuseppe Verdi, it was the opening lyrics of the legendary slave chorus – Va pensiero, sull’ ali dorate (Fly,...
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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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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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Passion and rich coloration are the characteristics Hector Berlioz admired most in this opera, which was composed by twenty-five-year-old Bizet in less than three...
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Mozart’s Il dissoluto punito ossia Il Don Giovanni — ‘The Rake Punished, or Don Giovanni’ — lends the theatrical character who...
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Verdi’s final opera is a brilliant riposte to Gioacchino Rossini’ssuspicions that his colleague was too serious and melancholy to evercreate a decent...
