Provoking boos 25 years ago for radical stagings saturated with sex and violence, Calixto Bieito at age 61 has transformed ...
This staging of the final part of Wagner’s Ring cycle, which has been stripped to its essence in drama and music, has great ...
I wanted The Industry to be much more than my little playground. I wanted it to be as broad and open-minded as what opera can ...
"Flight Lessons is a full, rich story—the heroine’s journey—that takes us into the world of urban birds," writes Gene Kahane.
He was commissioned for Wagner’s four-opera “Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Ring of the Nibelung)” in 2015 and was in rehearsals for an April 2020 opening when the the coronavirus pandemic ...
Calixto Bieito Takes on Wagner's Ring Cycle, a Quarter Century After First ... snorting Don Juan and was booed at the English National Opera on opening night. A 2004 staging of Mozart’s ...
PARIS (AP) — Calixto Bieito turned introspective as he sat in a cafe across from the Opéra Bastille, where his production of the first night Wagner’s Ring Cycle was to premiere the following day.