the Nuremberg opera house and the battle for Germany’s soul
by When audiences enter the Nuremberg State Theater in four years, they will find themselves in an 800-seat cubicle covered in green. To get there, they …
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the ‘dimensionalist’ who wrote a symphony for 1,000 phones
Symphony concerts are not supposed to be like this. This week, audiences for the world premiere of Huang Ruo’s City of Floating Sounds will download …
Review of Tosca at Margaret Court Arena – Puccini’s opera straight after the stadium treatment
Opera is big, in general: big sound, big emotions, big sets. So when Opera Australia announced that it was to stage Puccini’s Tosca at the …
a musical about the destruction of the Ukrainian dam premiered in Kyiv
With a casual glance at the elegant Kyivians queuing outside the lemon-yellow neoclassical theater perched above Freedom Square, onlookers would have had little clue that …
The horror of the Welsh National Opera is the ultimate proof of arts councils’ hatred of opera
The anti-opera lobby at Arts Council England must be throwing up their hands in glee: their funding for the National Opera of Wales has dropped …