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Wednesday brought Christopher Alden’s grimly dark and violent take on Handel’s Aci, Galatea e Polifemo at National Sawdust.
9 pieces since 2017 — in 6 roles, at 5 companies, most often at National Sawdust.
Wednesday brought Christopher Alden’s grimly dark and violent take on Handel’s Aci, Galatea e Polifemo at National Sawdust.
Ahead of his new production of Die Frau ohne Schatten, Barrie Kosky chats with Kevin Ng in Aix about pretty much everything — except the details of his new Frau.
Festival d’Aix-en-Provence confronts the living and the dead — and its own future — through audacious productions and an intimate world premiere.
Barrie Kosky’s zany production of The Nose time-steps back onto the Komische Oper Berlin stage.
A stark, sweltering performance of Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk shocks the Komische Oper Berlin.
A new DVD recording of La Juive boasts considerable musical strengths in spite of a frustrating production.
Rufus Wainwright is determined to offer a spectacle and that intention overrides all other considerations.
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