Madama Butterfly Opera in Munich meant witnessing one of Giacomo Puccini’s best operas ever staged. A story of true love gone wrong. It is about Cio Cio San. She is a Japanese geisha marketed as a bride to American soldier, B.F. Pinkerton, as Madama Butterfly. It was partly inspired by the stories of soldiers stationed…
Opera had never been so tragic and psychotic until you witness Lulu by Alban Berg at Bayerische Staatsoper. A woman whose power to seduce people despite the danger that comes with having relations with her. Lulu managed to fascinate, shock and confuse an audience accustomed to sex and violence in theater. Just when you thought…
I remember promising to write a review about the French opera Les Contes d’Hoffmann (Tales of Hoffman) in a previous article although I saw myself writing a review of another version of this classic French opera by Jacques Offenbach – a tale about how a writer’s creativity is motivated more by his passions. It spurns…