A Pasolini-inspired Tosca at La Monnaie does not quite find the pleasure in the pain.
Calixto Bieito‘s production of Idomeneo at La Monnaie is anchored by a committed cast, but gets swept up in pseudo-psychoanalytic imagery — and foot fetishism.
Fine music-making meets a clunker of a production in La Monnaie‘s revival of Norma
Tell us: Filth or dementia?
Hasten thee to feed another quarter of conversation for The Talk of the Town!
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