| Date and venue | Title |
|---|---|
| 2-Apr-2012 Theater an der Wien | Strong storytelling in the Theater an der Wien’s Tales of Hoffmann |
 Director William Friedkin doesn’t put a dramaturgical foot wrong in his Theater an der Wien production of The Tales of Hoffmann and yet doesn’t challenge, or even engage with, any of the opera’s Romantic positions. Did the notion that serious artists aren’t entitled to live life, for instance, ever have much currency outside of the 19th-century?Read full review... | |
| 1-Aug-2011 Großes Festspielhaus | The Salzburg Festival's Die Frau ohne Schatten |
 Richard Strauss and Hugo von Hofmannsthal began their collaboration on Die Frau ohne Schatten (The Woman Without a Shadow) with utopian ambitions. Unfortunately they weren’t the same ones. For Hofmannsthal, this would finally be the opera where his poetry would be illuminated by rather than buried under the music. For Strauss, this was to be his magnum opus, the self-proclaimed “last Romantic opera” that would cement his place in musical history.Read full review... | |
