Life of the Mardi
La Monnaie’s flamboyantly busy new production of Benvenuto Cellini reads more burlesque than Berlioz.
12 pieces since 2013 — at 6 companies, most often at La Monnaie.
2 pieces as La Monnaie — stats above show all coverage for Alain Altinoglu.
View allLa Monnaie’s flamboyantly busy new production of Benvenuto Cellini reads more burlesque than Berlioz.
As I mentioned in my last article (on the subject of Calixto Bieito’s production of Das Rheingold at the Paris Opera), in what the French might call une histoire belge, La Monnaie’s Ring cycle started with Romeo Castellucci as its director, and is now ending with Pierre Audi.
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