| Date and venue | Title |
|---|---|
| 22-Nov-2011 Volksoper Vienna | Puccini takes centre stage in Stefan Herheim’s Madama Butterfly |
 Manon, Mimi, Tosca and Cio-Cio San. Why does Puccini send these women to such heartless deaths? It’s a question which musicologist Mosco Carner answered in the 1950s with a speculative Freudian reduction (the composer apparently had a debilitating mother complex). In this Volksoper production, director Stefan Herheim’s response is to point the finger at the audience: Butterfly quickly develops second thoughts about suicide and it is we who brutally stab her to death as she pleads for her life.Read full review... | |
