Eric Raes
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Eric Raes in Les Contes d'Hoffmann (Seizoen 2003-2004)
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Eric Raes in Werther (Seizoen 2002-2003)
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Eric Raes in Werther (Seizoen 2002-2003)
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Eric Raes in Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (Seizoen 2001-2002)
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Eric Raes in Die Zauberflöte (Seizoen 2000-2001)
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Abdallo in Nabucco
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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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After "Yevgeny Onegin", "Pikovaya Dama", also known as "The Queen of Spades", is Tchaikovsky's most famous and successful opera.
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After the big fresco's "Nabucco" and "I Lombardi", written for theScala in Milano, Verdi dared to commit himself to a more intimite dramafor the...
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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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In his famous aria "La donna è mobile", the Duke of Mantua is probablyreferring more to his own unpredictability than the supposed ficklenessof women....
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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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Bellini finds in Belcanto an instrument to create a unity between musicand emotions. His noble and melodious style with influances of Gluck,will lead his...
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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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Jules Massenets Werther is a high light in Franch opera history? Flanders Opera brings this masterpiece directed by Willy Decker....
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‘La Traviata’ is both the last opera in what is known as GiuseppeVerdi’s ‘trilogia popolare’ or ‘popular trilogy’ (the other two being‘Rigoletto’ and ‘Il...
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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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The life and work of Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann could only yield akaleidoscopic and fantastic opera. In Offenbach’s opera, variousstories by the German Romantic...
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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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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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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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Poulenc’s Dialogues des Carmélites takes us within the closed setting of a Carmelite convent at the time of the French...
