Let’s do the time warp again Let’s do the time warp again

Tobias Kratzer‘s time-traveling Arabella from the Deutsche Oper Berlin, now available on DVD, turns the opera’s problems into its strengths.

By November 07, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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A vision almost like a prophecy A vision almost like a prophecy

Folks who have never attended a full-length, uncut Giacomo Meyerbeer grand opera have been known to pout and ponder: Why did the most popular opera composer of the mid-nineteenth century all but vanish from the stages of the world after a hundred years?

By August 07, 2024 at 9:00 AM
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Ohne Ziel, ohne Rast Ohne Ziel, ohne Rast

Instead of following the story, we in the audience spend most of the evening thinking “What?? Why is that happening?”

By September 30, 2023 at 10:00 AM
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Empty chairs Empty chairs

The fourth production of Santa Fe Opera’s 66th Festival Season that opened on Saturday June 22 offered a multitude of firsts.

By July 31, 2023 at 11:00 AM
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