Benoît De Leersnyder
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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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Georg Friedrich Händel wrote about forty Italian operas for the London theatres. Among them, "Ariodante" is definitely a masterpiece, even though the reputation of...
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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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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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With The Merry Widow the Austrian-Hungarian composer Franz Lehár wrote THE succes operetta of the 20th century. This winner, written in...
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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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After the succes of Mozart's The Magic Flute last year, Flanders Opera again schedules an opera for children. Nino Rota's...
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Pikovaya Dama , a.k.a. the Queen of Spades, is Tchaikovsky’s second most famous opera, after Evgeny Onegin . For the...
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Although the story of Wozzeck , which is based on Georg Büchner’s impressive dramatic fragment Woyzeck , is...
