The ghastliness of Vienna Opera’s new curtain

The ghastliness of Vienna Opera’s new curtain

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norman lebrecht

October 22, 2021

Pass the sick bag.

Each year the Vienna State Opera commissions a new safety curtain for its stage from a leading artist.

Art can be good, bad or indifferent.

This latest hang by ‘by the renowned Brazilian artist Beatriz Milhazes’ is at once indifferent and altogether inappropriate. It diminishes the house.

The first response is nausea.


Beatriz Milhazes, Pink Sunshine, Iron Curtain, museum in progress, Vienna State Opera, 2021/2022, © museum in progress (www.mip.at)

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