
Puccini’s Toaster is Berlin in Opera Form
Puccini’s Toaster’s operatic performance of Gian Carlo Menetti’s The Old Maid and the Thief was one of those rare moments in which the ineffable naïve energy of this city culminated for an instant. For it is only in Berlin that an opera can take place not in a Wagnerian performance hall, in which every aspect … Read more Puccini’s Toaster is Berlin in Opera Form