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Not another teen opera Not another teen opera

Vincent Boussard’s 2011 take on Bellini’s I Capuleti e i Montecchi returned on Saturday (May 12) to Munich’s Nationaltheater.

By on May 14, 2012 at 1:08 PM
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It might as well be Einspring It might as well be Einspring

Kate Royal withdrew as Mozart’s Contessa the other night (May 3) in Munich and we were forced to accept as substitute—gosh!—Anja Harteros

By on May 06, 2012 at 9:11 PM
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Lulu (some) Lulu (some)

Daniel Barenboim does not want to conduct Berg’s Lulu. Or so it seems.

By on April 08, 2012 at 9:09 PM
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An unlikely but adept English-language vocal stylist, Cecilia Bartoli, led the cast of a revival of the 2007 Zurich staging of Handel’s Semele, transferred to the Theater an der Wien for a short run. Director Robert Carsen takes an occasional liberty: Juno and Jupiter emerge as British royals, for instance, she a wellie-wearer and devotee…

By on September 17, 2010 at 10:45 AM
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