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Un Ballo in Maschera

Un Ballo in Maschera

Grim Setting for High Drama

January 24, 2018 | By Heidi Ellison | Music

Giuseppe Verdi’s Un Ballo in Maschera (A Masked Ball), currently onstage at the Bastille Opera in Paris, has had a checkered history. The germ of the story is the assassination of King Gustav III of Sweden at a masked ball in … Read More

La Bohème

La Bohème

Tragic Love in a Frosty Setting

December 6, 2017 | By Nick Hammond | Music

Imagine the scene. German director Claus Guth has been asked to create a new production of Giacomo Puccini’s La Bohème for the Bastille Opera House in Paris. “I need to shake up this old chestnut.” he says to himself. “Let … Read More


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