A darkened stage breaks its stillness with the dissonant phrases of a quarter grand piano. Dim lights cast the figure of a woman lying on the floor of her living room. Her hectic energy hovers over the space. The phone rings. The protagonist finds herself on the receiving end of two wrong-number calls. This small,
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"If you happen to open a piano-vocal score of Lulu, it looks like a vengeful composer threw up random spots of black onto the musical staff, tied some rhythms to it, and called it a day. And yet... it sounds like glorious music."
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Review: The children's opera "The Secret of the Black Spider" is scary enough for the kids without boring the adults.
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When Michael found himself in the elevator with the right guy at Oper Leipzig, he thought he'd take a shot and told him he had written a song cycle. As he continued his pitch, it took a while for him to realize the answer had been "yes."
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"From the moment one walks into Leipzig’s Musikalische Komödie (MuKo), the mood is set with crashing waves and a thundering drum roll for The Count of Monte Cristo." Catch it this Saturday or Sunday for the last time this season.
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Though unimpressed with its Regietheater component, our classical music reviewer was largely impressed with the singing and recommends the opera as a good, accessible introduction to Wagner. Last performance of the season: 27 May at Oper Leipzig.
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