No opera on the Rhine for at least a month
mainThe latest from the flooded Duisburg theatre is that the damage from a broken sprinkler system is extensive.
Wagner’s Götterdämmerung is supposed to open on May 5, but there is nowhere to rehearse it and hopes of getting it on stage are getting damper by the day. ‘We currently do not know if and in what form we can bring out the production,’ said Deutsche Oper am Rhein’s intendant, Christoph Meyer.
“Zurück vom Ring!”
The perform in two venues: Duisburg and Dusseldorf. Maybe the productions will move to Dusseldorf?