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At Last, A Major Opera House Has Returned To Full-Scale Production

MUSIC Posted: July 1, 2020 5:06 am

In Barcelona, they performed for plants. But at Madrid’s Teatro Real, it’s a real staging for a real (though smaller) audience. “The opening scenes of merriment have taken on a sombre tone, with the chorus clad in black and white and spaced exactly 2 metres apart. Minutes into the staging of La Traviata, the surgical masks come off, timed with the rising notes of an orchestra led by a conductor standing behind a plastic screen.” – The Guardian

MUSIC Published: 07.01.20

Read the story in The Guardian Published: 07.01.20

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