Offenbach‘s Robinson Crusoé is salvaged from obscurity.
A double bill of rare Bizet works in Paris is not something any of us needs to do more than once
Nigel Wilkinson reports on Teodor Curentzis and Peter Sellars‘s new production of Rameau‘s Castor et Pollux in Paris.
What can you say, other than that everything was fab?
Dancing sheep! Flying sheep! Flying sheep who dance!
Trove Thursday wades into the murky musicological waters of Offenbach’s Les Contes d’Hoffmann..
I was, to my astonishment, quite bored.
What must have raced through the mind of the none-too-comely Spanish Infanta when she learned that the opera to be performed during the celebrations for her 1745 wedding to the French Dauphin revolved around the comeuppance of an ugly yet vain water nymph tricked into believing Jupiter was her ardent suitor?
Tell us: Filth or dementia?
Hasten thee to feed another quarter of conversation for The Talk of the Town!
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