In 1781, the enlightened Emperor Joseph II abolished serfdom, ensuring society’s least privileged – servants like Figaro and Susanna in Le nozze di Figaro – of certain civil freedoms, including marriage. In their opera, Mozart and […]
Munich’s new production of Puccini’s shocker is set in 1975 in Rome where Pier Paolo Pasolini is filming ‘The 120 Days of Sodom’. The Hungarian director Kornél Mundruczó opens his interpretation with fascist soldiers leading […]
Lyonnaise pianist Jodylne Gallavadin’s second album for Scala Music is a noctunal odyssey. recorded in September 2024 in Scala’s studio in Provnce and produced by Cécile Lenoir. Gallavadin’s own notes include a poem (in Freach […]