Mozart described this opera as a 'playful drama'. David McVicar's epic production, stylishly realised by Matthew Barclay, incorporates moments of comedy, high drama, even playfulness, but it's the inevitable sense of tragedy, in its sweeping expose of the profligate adventures of its seventeenth century Harvey Weinstein, that dominates the evening. The dark, decaying setting by […]
SOURCE: Australian Arts Review at 09:12PM on January 29, 2020