Directorial high-handedness is everywhere in the opera world. But new operas can only reach a wider audience when the staging realizes the qualities inherent in the work, rather than damaging or even destroying it.
Images from Adolf Wölfi’s “Notebooks with Songs and Dances,” books 15-20 (1917–1922) • Images Public Domain via Adolf Wölfli-Stiftung, Bern, Switzerland
I. “You Want to Stop Listening”
1996, Bregenz Festival.
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