Creepy Wozzeck

Rolf Liebermann's 1970 film of Berg's Wozzeck is quite literal but claustrophobic and rather compelling.  There's also some brilliant conducting from Bruno Maderna.  More...

Cans

I'm often up two or three hours before lemurcatta and early morning is a good time for me. Also, since I've been back at work my opera watching time has been much reduced. So, yesterday I bought some wireless headphones and now I can watch Wagner at 0600 without disturbing lemurcatta or the neighbours.

In other exciting Black Friday news we bought a new mattress. I can't remember how long I/we have had the previous one but I suspect it's close on thirty years.

Iphigénie en Zurich

Claus Guth's 2001 Zurich production of Gluck's Iphigénie en Tauride is the only video recording of the work currently available. The disk package is flawed but it's worth a look. More...