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King Arthur
René Jacobs and the Akademie für alte Musik Berlin made their annual appearance at the Berlin Staatsoper with a new production of Henry Purcell’s King Arthur. Unlike previous stagings by the baroque specialists, this production provided far greater theatrical than musical delights. The production by Sven-Eric Bechtolf and Julian Crouch was one of the most riotous and theatrically bold things attempted in Berlin over the past decade, with a level of sumptuousness and constant invention more regularly associated with Barrie Kosky’s spectacles for the Komische Oper.
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