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Regie, bangles and beads

Smartly done, cher diseur de bons mots: Monsieur Hoffmann rightly guessed last week’s puzzler to be Don Giovanni. The production by Doris Dörrie is currently playing the Staatsoper Hamburg.

Elsewhere, the Regie never stops, as you will see after the jump.

36 comments

  • Lucia Lammermoor says:

    It is so horrible what they do to opera in Germany… So many performances I had to leave after the first act. Now I simply do not attend opera in Germany unless one of my favourite artists performs.