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76 comments

• Regina delle fate says:

  Antonio d’Oro – there is a recording of Gerald Barry’s Petra von Kant – a concert performance from Dublin released on DVD by RTE (the Irish version of the BBC). Here’s the catalogue number:

  Barry: The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant

  RTÉ – RTE CD 261

  €24.79

  If you Google Barry’s Bitter Tears you’ll find a link and you can order it

  on May 13, 2008 at 9:30 PM
• Helluva Nervi says:

  This is whispering Hansel und Gretel to me….

  1. Dew Fairy
  2. Hansel and Mummy
  3. Witch and Gretel

  Or wait – it could just be Rheingold…

  1. woglinde camps it up.
  2. Loge offering Erda light relief for her gloomy prophecies
  3. Fricka and Freia
  3.

  on May 14, 2008 at 10:35 AM
• Barbara says:

  I have no idea what it is, but I want it.

  on May 14, 2008 at 9:21 PM
• Barbara says:

  ok, Ugly Lulu.

  on May 14, 2008 at 9:23 PM
• fromthepit says:

  It is of course Gerald Barry’s The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant, from the original ENO production. I dare to reveal the answer even though to do so is against the rules, because La Cieca herself broke the rules by presenting these photos as an example of Regietheater. Presumably that term refers to a radical reinterpretation of the composer’s conception by a director. This production, a direct collaboration between composer and director on a world premiere, by definition cannot be Regietheater. An illustration of the excesses of the European stage, perhaps, or a radical reinterpretation of Fassbinder’s film, maybe, but Regietheater, no.

  on May 15, 2008 at 2:43 PM
• Antonio d'Oro says:

  My sincere thanks to il_guarany and Regina delle fate for leading me to a recording — I seem to have been shockingly unresourceful in not having found it myself.

  on May 16, 2008 at 6:58 AM