Hugo von Hofmannsthal: A stage releases dreams

2024-01-30 18:46:00

Anyone who only perceives Hugo von Hofmannsthal as a lyricist is overlooking one of his innovations: architecture and costume should reveal something regarding characters just as much as text and music.

Is “Der Rosenkavalier” a rococo and therefore unmodern opera? This is not easy to refute. But the Theater Museum in Vienna is now revealing counter-evidence that is as subtle as much of Hugo’s libretti, dramas, poems and prose…

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