Tag Archives: Hitler

The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, Minerva Theatre, CFT Chichester, July 2012

Posted on 12 July 2012

Bertolt Brecht wrote this play, parodying Hitler as Chicago mobster Arturo Ui, in less than a month in 1941 while awaiting his US visa in Helsinki. Other main characters represent various people Hitler either used or killed to get where he was. Its didacticism is intended for an American audience, and although the first act dragged a …

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Wagner at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, a retrospective, February 2010

Posted on 17 February 2010

Five Wagner operas in six days … was quite a marathon, but well worth it, particularly for three of the productions.

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Rienzi, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Wagner Wochen, February 2010

Posted on 11 February 2010

In the second part … it all came together. The amateurish rise to power of the clown-like Rienzi is over. Here he is shown in his bunker on the ground level of the stage, with the people on the street level above.

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