Last night, the Vienna Opera was near empty

Last night, the Vienna Opera was near empty

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norman lebrecht

December 16, 2021

We have received these pictures of the Vienna State Opera, a few seconds before the curtain rose on Act 3 of Parsifal.

It was the first performance with an audience present of Kirill Serebrennikov’s new production.
The production was vociferously booed after each of the first two acts, apparently in protest against an unsightly stage design.

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