Posts Tagged 'Chris Weber'

The “La fille de Madame Angot” Disaster at Opéra Comique

The last time this wonderful operetta by Charles Lecocq was performed in Paris was in 1984, at the Châtelet. I

Ever since that night so many years ago when I saw my first Offenbach (November 4, 1974, Hoffmanns Erzählungen, at

If resources enough could be gathered together for an annual festival of Offenbach and maybe his time, where would it

For my Christmas present, and to celebrate that Covid is (we must hope) over, I recently traveled to Europe. Over

On Screen

14/07/2021·1 comment·

Laurent Pelly’s celebrated production of Offenbach’s Barbe-bleue from the Opéra de Lyon has finally arrived on DVD. It offers Yann

It is so easy to rip a performance apart. But what do you do if you see perfection? Alright, if

25/06/2019·1 comment·

One cannot call them “reviews,” since I don’t read music, and a performance has to be either very good or

In 1980, the classical music world marked the 100th anniversary of Jacques Offenbach’s death. And for this greatest of ‘life