The horror of the pharaonic meat grinder
Lydia Steier directs Aida in Frankfurt (****) [live]
Author : Jos Hermans
Of all nineteenth-century operas, Aida is one of the pieces that suffers most from slavish submission to the composer's original stage directions. Conventional productions then easily derail into an Oberammergau on the Nile. Drenched in the noble kitsch of a pseudo-histo…
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