Das Wunder der Heliane fuses sex with the sacred at a simmering performance at the Opéra National du Rhin.
Although stripped down, this comedy of manners was far from boring due to well-choreographed movements and actions of the characters.
Francesco Cavalli’s 1649 opera Il Giasone (Jason) was virtually a model of the many conventions that had come to be expected in Venetian public opera in the seventeenth century.
Tell us: Filth or dementia?
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