4.0★ ★ ★ ★ Aida Fabio Rickenmann [Age:19] 31/08/2021 Considering the current deterioration of the epidemiologic situation, one would have never dreamed of being able to enjoy an opera alongside 15,000 ot...
The Seven Deadly Sins / Mahagonny Songspiel Fabio Rickenmann [Age:19] 03/05/2021 If the countless works of the duo Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill have one striking feature, it is their ability to mask immense social criticism throug...
La Bohème Fabio Rickenmann [Age:19] 23/07/2019 Staging an opera that is set in Paris during a cold winter around 1830 at an Italian open-air festival in midsummer is definitely not an easy task. An...
Manon Fabio Rickenmann [Age:19] 10/04/2019 Abbé Prévost’s Novel “Histoire du Chevalier des Grieux et de Manon Lescaut,” written back in 173,1 was an inspiration to many opera composers, includi...
Cosi fan tutte Fabio Rickenmann [Age:19] 26/11/2018 A premier at the Zurich Opera has probably never drawn so much international attention than the one of this production in early November. The reason f...
Die Gezeichneten (The Stigmatized) Fabio Rickenmann [Age:19] 25/09/2018 It is barely believable how political decisions can ban a cultural masterpiece from the mind of a society for almost a full century. Owing to his Jewi...
La Forza del Destino Fabio Rickenmann [Age:19] 03/06/2018 It happens quite often that Giuseppe Verdi’s 1862 opera La Forza del Destino is criticized for its implausible and weak plot. The focus is the love be...
Idomeneo Fabio Rickenmann [Age:19] 14/02/2018 What makes a story still so relevant even though it’s a part of ancient legends that have their origin over 3000 years ago? It’s the identification wi...
Jewgeni Onegin Fabio Rickenmann [Age:19] 28/09/2017 “Lyrical scenes”, that’s what Tschaikovsky called his in 1887 written opera, after being criticized for weak plot.
Turandot Fabio Rickenmann [Age:19] 25/07/2017 All’alba vincero! Vincero! Vincero! After these last words of Puccinis world-famous aria “Nessun Dorma” you could hear the sound of 3000 people on their feet ...
