Fragments of a blog
Fragments of a blog
By way of an epigraph, a confession from a Russian music forum: Fidelio… The singers poured beer on each other… or threw beer cans — I don’t remember which and don’t want to recall. Act II began with Florestan lying…
Trenchcoats are not a rarity in Russia. On eis therefore left to wonder if Dmitry Chernyakov dressed Wagner’s characters in long raincoats out of respect for some Great Western Stage Director or out of loyalty to reality as depicted in…
Pop art vulgarity sometimes seems to border on something good and genuine — but you can never tell for sure. Here are four pictures from a recent Tristan und Isolde production in the Mariinsky Theater in St. Petersburg, conducted by…