Mathis the Painter - review

Opéra Bastille, ParisNicolas Joël, the head of Opéra Bastille in Paris, maintains that his personal tastes make no difference to what he stages, a claim we partly believe. But disregarding likes or dislikes, he did agree to add Mathis the Painter, by Paul Hindemith, an American composer of German origin, to the opera house's repertoire. According to the periodical L'Avant-Scène Opéra, which has devoted its latest issue to the work, the opera has not been produced in France since 1951, thoug...

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