Das Wunder der Heliane fuses sex with the sacred at a simmering performance at the Opéra National du Rhin.
This summer’s festival, taking place amid record high temperatures and in the wake of its artistic director, Pierre Audi, featured a disquietingly zeigeisty focus on sexual violence.
Before stopping at Carnegie Hall this weekend, The English Concert returned to the Bay Area last week with a fiery performance of Giulio Cesare
Tell us: Filth or dementia?
Hasten thee to feed another quarter of conversation for The Talk of the Town!
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