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by antrazalite

“La Damnation de Faust” with Castronovo, Kožená, Boesch, Rattle at Staatsoper Berlin.

The choice to come to Berlin twice in a month was made a year ago when new season announcement came in and was driven by name of the director Terry Gilliam, reflecting on his brilliant interpretation of Benvenuto Cellini at ENO a few years ago. Only afterwards I learned that La Damnation in 2011 was […]

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by antrazalite

Damnation of the future: Faust recreated. La Damnation de Faust, Hector Berlioz, Opera National de Paris, December 27th, 2015

  There has been so much controversy about the new production of La Damnation by Alvis Hermanis in Opera Bastille that it was almost impossible to come to the show without preconception or some opinion of what has to be expected. As I have not been lucky enough and free to choose dates for travel […]

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