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 put up with the lack of taste displayed by German dictator/directors. But the absence of observation trumps all.
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Ex-BBC man Adam Gatehouse, who took over as artistic director of the Leeds Piano Competition together with Paul Lewis nine years ago, is to step aside in the spring. Gatehouse has been sole artistic director […]
The US violinist has cancelled next month’s European tour with the São Paulo Symphony Orchestra and conductor Thierry Fischer. She will be replaced by Roman Simovic, leader of the London Symphony Orchestra, in the Ginastera […]
The LPC has named an associate conductor to shadow Artistic Director Neville Creed in his final season, and cover the next four years. She is Victoria (Tori) Longdon, Principal Conductor of the Covent Garden Chorus. […]
.png?w=160&resize=160,160&ssl=1 "A destroyed and partially rebuilt city - Sven Helbig’s 'Requiem A' receives its UK Premiere at Central Hall Westminster")
