Kratzer, Tobias

The Opera ‘Monster’s Paradise’ Takes Satirical Aim at Trump

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“Monster’s Paradise,” by Olga Neuwirth and Elfriede Jelinek, attempts an operatic response to current events and politics. Is that possible?

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Olga Neuwirth’s new opera, “Monster’s Paradise,” leans into the absurd to examine the phenomenon of the strongman leader (with added zombies).

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Productions take very different approaches to the central symbol of this epic cycle, treating Wagner with daring freedom.

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At Munich’s prestigious opera house, the Russian-born Vladimir Jurowski has broadened the repertoire while rooting his work in political awareness.

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With its home theater under renovation, the Komische Oper branches out, beginning with Henze’s “The Raft of the Medusa” at Tempelhof Airport.

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In Berlin, the Komische Oper is experimenting with its performance venues while its theater undergoes a multiyear renovation.

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At the festival that Wagner founded, a new “Parsifal” looks different depending on how you see it, and a workshop model refreshes revivals.

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Whether in works by Mahler, Mozart or Rossini, directors at the Aix-en-Provence Festival in France evoke mass death and refugee crises.

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With concurrent productions in France that are fresh yet faithful, Kratzer is “renewing opera, but renewing it intelligently,” says one colleague.