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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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‘Pure façade – power, perfume, make-up and fur – and nothing behind it’is how Thomas Adès and librettist Philip Hensher describe the eccentricDuchess of...
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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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Richard III was the first political criminal, before Macbeth,whom Shakespeare chose to portray as a tragic hero. The hunchbackedking is fascinated by...
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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....