Meet the Millenium (sic) Ensemble of Dresden.
Somebody needed to proofread their branding.
One missing letter can spell an awful lot of embarrassment.
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A caricature of a performance of Handel’s Flavio (from 1723) featuring Senesino and Francesca Cuzzoni with Berenstadt (far right) Handel’s opera Rodelinda was premiered 300 years ago this year, on 13 February 1725 at the King’s […]
Best known for his opera Der Vampyr (he was a leading composer in the period between Weber and Wagner), Heinrich August Marschner (1795-1861). He was well travelled though Europe before he arrived in Dresden by […]
This is a scene from a new Richard Strauss production in Berlin. I will confine my criticism to the singer’s ironing technique: that is not how you do men’s collars, darling. I can just about […]
