Irish blessing Irish blessing

Lise Davidsen‘s first Isolde is only one of the highlights of Tristan und Isolde at the Liceu in Barcelona.

Gonna build a heaven from a little hell Gonna build a heaven from a little hell

Tobias Kratzer‘s Das Rheingold in Munich kicks off a Ring for the post-secular age

Girl next door Girl next door

My first introduction to Béla Bartók’s one-act opera Bluebeard’s Castle was the musicologist Susan McClary’s infamous book Feminine Endings. Here, McClary likened her search of a feminist musicology to Judith’s journey through the seven doors; a journey that ends in Judith’s symbolic death.