Bregenz Festival excavates long-forgotten Krenek opera

[AFP, 25 July 2008]
BREGENZ, Austria (AFP) ó While the opening night of the annual Bregenz Festival on Wednesday was one for the masses with a visually stunning staging of Giacomo Puccini’s “Tosca”, opera connoisseurs were in for a treat on Thursday with a rarely performed operatic gem from the 1930s.