In the State Opera There Are Murder, Sex and Tears at Night
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Sex and Death in the Luxury Furniture House: Director Vasily Barkhatov combines Zemlinsky's "Florentine Tragedy" and Bartók's "Duke Blaubart's Castle" for a continuous narrative of a murder as a relationship ride. This works amazingly well – and makes a musical impression under Alain Altinoglu.
As the first season premiere, director Vasily Barkhatov links Zemlinsky's "Florentine Tragedy" and Bartók's "Duke Blaubart's Castle" to a relationship drama with everything that belongs to it.
Russian-born director Vasily Barkhatov makes his debut on Saturday with two short operas at the Vienna State Opera, while Zemlinsky and Bartók bet on Sigmund Freud's therapy couch.
Sex and Death in the Luxury Furniture House: Director Vasily Barkhatov combines Zemlinsky's "Florentine Tragedy" and Bartók's "Duke Blaubart's Castle" for a continuous narrative of a murder as a relationship ride. This works amazingly well – and makes a musical impression under Alain Altinoglu.
Sigmund Freud and Woody Allen would probably have their bright joy - or perhaps rather a dark one in this case - at the seasonal première of the Vienna State Opera: House debutant Vasily Barkhatov spans in a double evening the two one-act "A Florentine Tragedy" by Alexander Zemlinsky and "Duke Blaubart's Castle" by Béla Bartók into a psychoanalytic marriage drama. A couple, double problems.
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