Tonight, Munich is playing opera unstaged
OperaFollowing last night’s fiasco in Florence, tonight the Bavarian State Opera has been forced by industrial action to perform Rossini’s Barber of Seville in front of the safety curtain.
It’s part of a state-wide ‘warning strike’ by trade unions over pay and conditions.
Unlike Florence, at least there will be an orchestra and chorus. The musicians will be in the pit and arrangements have been made to seat the chorus in surrounding boxes.
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