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Mob mentality: a powerful La Juive at Opera Vlaanderen

Posted on March 11, 2019 by Mark Pullinger

Halévy: La Juive Opera Vlaanderen, Antwerp, 10th March 2019 Watching an Orthodox Jew walking down the Keyserlei, a street packed with jewellers, it struck me that Antwerp, with its prolific diamond trade, would be a good setting for Fromental Halévy’s … Continue reading →

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A tale of three Hoffmanns: Kosky’s Komische Oper production a triumph

Posted on October 8, 2015 by Mark Pullinger

Offenbach: Les contes d’Hoffmann **** Komische Oper, Berlin, 7th October 2015 Offenbach’s Les contes d’Hoffmann must be a gift to stage. Based on three of E.T.A. Hoffmann’s disturbing tales, the opera allows plenty of scope for inventive directors – or possibly … Continue reading →

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