operaexplorer

Travelling and enjoying opera performances

Deliriously funny Orphée aux enfers: Salzburg festival, August 23, 2019

The first night at the Salzburg festival this year turned out to be a lot of fun listening to catchy melodies by Offenbach and admiring witty, ironic direction by Barry Kosky colorfully and attractively telling us the story of Orpheus in the Underworld. In fact, this is another case where the main protagonist is shadowed […]

Gregory Kunde as Le Prophete at Deutsche Oper Berlin, December 3, 2017

It is undisputably great initiative undertaken by Deutsche Oper Berlin in reviving grand operas of Giacomo Meyerbeer – the success of Les Huguenots last year put very high expectation for this year continuation in Le Prophete. Highly anticipated, previously unseen by me, – and great cast assembled to tell the story. The opera addresses challenges […]