Werner Van Mechelen

Six marriages, two annulments, two beheadings and the founding of his own Church, against the authority of Rome... in his search for a suitable...

Vrylating : 2023.05.16
Gewildheid : 0.18

Premiered in 1733, Pergolesi's La Serva Pedrona is a Major event in the history of opera. Due to the lightheatedness of the plot and the ordinariness...

Vrylating : 1986.01.01
Gewildheid : 0.001

Premiered in Stockholm in 1978, the work is based on a play by Michel de Ghelderode (1898-1962) and unfolds in an imaginary land inspired by the...

Vrylating : 2011.11.19
Gewildheid : 0.196

At the Opéra Royal de Wallonie-Liège, stage director David Hermann and music director Christian Zacharias lead a production of Otto...

Vrylating : 2014.02.07
Gewildheid : 0.136

The farce Gianni Schicchi is the triptych’s third and final chapter. In 2012 at the Puccini Plus Festival, the Opéra de Lyon presented...

Vrylating : 2012.01.01
Gewildheid : 0.413

A deeply-moving tragedy, Il Tabarro is the first chapter, a one-act opera that follows two lovers confronted by a violent, cuckolded husband. In...

Vrylating : 2012.01.01
Gewildheid : 0.592

This May 2010 production of Massenet's 1910 opera "Don Quichotte" marked the opera's centenary and also Jose Van Dam's operatic farewell at the...

Vrylating : 2010.06.15
Gewildheid : 0.416

‘In reality, this Lohengrin is an entirely new phenomenon for the modern consciousness!’ Richard Wagner himself understood the innovative...

Vrylating : 2018.04.19
Gewildheid : 1.462

Composed between 1875 and 1878, Le roi d'Ys was met with incredible success, with 100 performances the year of its premiere. The soprano Giuseppina...

Vrylating : 2009.03.30
Gewildheid : 0.004