The crown jewel of this year’s Munich Festival is undoubtedly Richard Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde, which opened the Festival on June 29 and will close the Festival with an “Opera for All” screening on July 31.

By Michael Anthonio July 19, 2021 42 comments

Questo e Quello

Cross purposes

“Has anyone ever seen a truly great production of this opera?”

By Porgy Amor May 27, 2016 23 comments

Questo e Quello

Mostly armorless

I’d never actually seen a production of Lohengrin before I agreed to review a new Decca DVD of Richard Jones‘s staging for the Bayerische Staastoper, starring Jonas Kaufmann, so I hope I’ve got this right: It’s about this architect named Elsa, who lives in an Orwellian steampunk Germany that has videocamera technology but still dresses like […]

By Dan Johnson June 29, 2010 51 comments

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