Volksoper director Lotte de Beer claims that a quarter of her audience is under 30. In the coming season, announced this morning, she’s pitching for pink Euros with a Pride Week Fledermaus in June 2026. […]
Vache Baroque in 2021 Vache Baroque‘s Summer opera production this year will be Pergolesi’s L’Olimpiade, his 1735 setting of a libretto by Metastasio that clocked up more than 50 different settings (including one by Vivaldi […]
Renowned for his Wagner Ring cycle at the Met and countless thoughtful productions in Europe, the Viennese opera director OttoSchenk died today at his Austrian lake house, at the age of 94. Schenk was still […]