Just in: It’s curtains for the Vienna Opera

Just in: It’s curtains for the Vienna Opera

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norman lebrecht

October 01, 2015

Last night, the Staatsoper audience was exposed for the first time to the new safety curtain.

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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.

 

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