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Title: Oh dear!!
Review: I have long supported "regietheatre" -- the director's concept because it is interesting to see what different artists can make of the same Work. Even when I did not like what was done, I found it worth watching and it sharpened my critical skills, such as they are. I did not like it when people who ranted against "eurotrash" wrote that the director should write his own opera.Well Herheim has just about done that, and it is, quite frankly awful. It is so unfocussed and unrelated to the music that I was unable to get beyond the first act. Perhaps it got better, but I have my doubts.I never thought that I would completely condemn a production, but I just have.
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