| Date and venue | Title | Submitted by |
|---|---|---|
| 19-Jun-2011 Westergasfabriek: Gashouder | Wolfgang Rihm's Dionysos makes Nietzsche sing | Zerbinetta |
 Friedrich Nietzsche’s life was not that of an isolated contemplative but rather full of personal frustration, eventually ending in syphilitic madness. While his work has been often linked with music--most notably in his relationship with Wagner and Richard Strauss’s tone poem based on Also sprach Zarathustra--making his life into an opera may seem a dubious proposition. But that is exactly what Dionysos, a new music theater work by Wolfgang Rihm that is currently being seen at the Holland Festival, attempts to do.
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