Dancing on a volcano
Robert Carsen directs Arabella in Zürich (***½)
Author : Jos Hermans
When Hugo von Hofmannsthal succumbed to a stroke on July 15, 1929, two days after his son's suicide, he left behind three acts of Arabella. He had just finished reworking the first act; the dramaturgical weaknesses of the second and third acts waited in vain for his final approval. Never…
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