The Bayerische Staatsoper’s summer festival winded down with Lotte de Beer’s darkly effective production of Gounod ’sFaust.
Wolf Trap Opera triumphs in a fizzy, fun Cenerentola.
Fine music-making meets a clunker of a production in La Monnaie‘s revival of Norma
Norman Lebrecht, who is now actively trying (and failing) to destroy classical music—and why not: look how cruelly the industry has treated him!—has published a “review” from a “critic” who walked out of a three-act opera after the first act.
Tell us: Filth or dementia?
Hasten thee to feed another quarter of conversation for The Talk of the Town!
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