opera notebook

some operas I have seen on video


Dmitri Shostakovich, Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk (1934)
De Nederlandse Opera, Amsterdam, 2006

Eva-Maria Westbroek
Eva-Maria Westbroek

The characters are trapped in a glass box, in Martin Zehetgruber's design (along with a lot of shoes), accentuating the claustrophobia of their own evil.

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