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Running through Bartók’s disenchanted tale, whose haunting music was initially condemned as unplayable, and the expression of despair in Poulenc’s monologue, the director Krzysztof Warlikowski perceives a shared dramatic thread, a shared feminine consciousness and a shared sense of imprisonment and suffocation: for the woman who penetrates the confines of Bluebeard’s castle and Elle, the woman who clings to a telephone conversation with a man as the only thing worth living for, are condemned to share the same fate. And this man she speaks to, does he really exist? Unless the director has interpreted Cocteau’s words to the letter and the telephone has become a “terrifying weapon that leaves no trace, makes no noise”… |
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Figaros Hochzeit
San Francisco Opera: Verdi's Rigoletto
Verdi La Traviata
Tristan und Isolde
Andrea Chenier
Leonard Bernstein Centennial Celebration at Tanglewood
Verdi: Il Trovatore
Rossini: La Cenerentola
Verdi: Don Carlo
La bohème - ROH
La Gioconda - Opera Bruxelles
Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk
Maometto secondo
Il Trovatore
Norma: Live from the Royal Opera House
The Metropolitan Opera: Tristan und Isolde
Carmen
Rossini: Il Barbiere di Siviglia
Rossini: Armida
The Metropolitan Opera: Così Fan Tutte
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