TONIGHT: Menotti’s The Medium from Zagreb

Slippedisc, courtesy of OperaVision brings Croatian National Theatre Zagreb’s production of Menotti’s  The Medium to our readers.  The opera offers enough suspense to rival any thriller in just one hour. Gian Carlo Menotti’s musically eclectic English-language opera mixes Italian verismo with musical-like American modernity, as one might expect from a thoroughly American-Italian composer and man of theatre.

The Plot:  with the help of her daughter and a mute servant, phony psychic Madame Flora uses her clients’ grief to deceive them. But one night, an uncanny encounter leads to murder and madness.

Dubravka Šeparović Mušović as Flora, Ivana Lazar as Monika, Margareta Matišić as Madam Nolan and Tamara Franetović Felbinger as Madam gobineau.

Sung in English. Subtitles will be available in English.

Available until 9 June 2022.

Streamed live from Croatian National Theatre Zagreb on Thursday 9 December 2021 at 20.00 CET,  19.00 London,  14.00 NY.