How queer is Dionysos allowed to be ?
Barrie Kosky directs Die Fledermaus in Munich (****½) [stream]
It took the Bayerische Staatsoper twenty-one years to admit Die Fledermaus to the canon of works played on the Isar, five years after the work's final consecration at the Vienna State Opera. The very Parsifal conductor Hermann Levi would lead the premiere in 1895.
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