Just in: It’s curtains for the Vienna Opera
mainLast night, the Staatsoper audience was exposed for the first time to the new safety curtain.
No-one booed.
This is the 18th change of safety curtain. The new drape is by a French artist, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster.
Beyond the curtain, James Conlon made his belated conducting debut in the house, in Khovantschina.
Awful does not begin to describe it ……
Helen Frankenthaler reference?
http://www.boston.com/ae/blogs/sebastiansmee/12282011_28frankenthaler_photo3.jpg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Frankenthaler
Yes, apparently. In 1956.
But what does this Abstract Expressionist have to do with the Vienna State Opera?