The Bayerische Staatsoper, based in three spectacular houses where Mozart, Wagner and many other composers premiered their works, presents over 300 annual performances to a discerning public.
Author: Gary Hoffman
Samson at Buxton Opera House
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/stage/opera/article4338208.ece
Revealing the best kept secret in opera
http://www.theherald.co.uk/features/features/display.var.2397662.0.Revealing_the_best_kept_secret_in_opera.php
Singers Muster at the Drill Hall
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Die Soldaten
Bernd Alois Zimmermann was a sensitive, none too healthy 21-year-old music prodigy in 1939, when he was drafted into the German army.
Troilus triumphant in Saint Louis Ö..
For Sir William Walton, the protracted genesis of Troilus and Cressida must have seemed more akin to the agonies of Sisyphus than to the composition of an opera.
CANDIDE ñ English National Opera, London Coliseum
Originating at the Ch‚telet, where the narration was given in French, Robert Carsen’s staging of Bernstein’s unique satire worked rather well in its television broadcast from the Parisian house late in 2006.
A Brescian Butterfly and a bewildering Hoffman at Opera Theatre of Saint Louis
The disastrous 1904 La Scala premiere of Giacomo Pucciniís Madame Butterfly is one of those famous annals of opera which tend to leave todayís audiences perplexed about all the uproar.