Madison Schindele
Madison Schindele is a NYC-based musicologist and Ph.D. candidate at the CUNY Graduate Center. Her research centers on the politicization of procreation in German operas, engaging with disability and feminist theory all the while. When not musicking she enjoys various unrelated hobbies (motorcycling, puppeteering, traditional greek folk dancing), and showing strangers photos of her rescue pit bull, Lilly!
Despite some complications, the Deutsche Oper exhumes buried treasure in Franz Schreker’s Der Schatzgräber.
A chic production of Violanta at the Deutshce Oper Berlin continues the Korngold craze on the other side of the Atlantic.
A classic German fairytale gets a modern update at the Staatsoper Berlin.
“Call me traditional, but I want to see a silver platter!”
A patchy production and musical performance can’t dull the edge of Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny at the Komische Oper Berlin
“Protect the dolls, they say, but who really cares for them?” This question, posed by performer Mara Snip during the postlude of Neuköllner Oper’s 1000 Airplanes on the Roof, had a clear answer: Aliens.
Michael Thalmeier‘s Tristan und Isolde in Berlin asks, how much minimalism is too much minimalism?
Anthony Hüseyin‘s eclectic recital in Berlin explores femicide in opera through a queer, nonbinary lens.
Madison Schindele on loving Die Frau ohne Schatten as a “woman of childbearing age”
Tell us: What was the best of 2025?
Parterre Box concludes the thrilling first year of Talk of the Town by inviting your lightning rod opinions on several more categories of operatic argumentation.
