Triple yay for maestro Hans Werner Henze whose Phaedra (one of our favorite opera myths, I mean, it's Paisiello's masterpiece and without Paisiello, after all, the inventor of like everything, we'd have no Elisir, no Don Pasquale, no Sonnambula, etc etc) Henze's Phaedra we were saying will debut on September 6 at Berlin's Staatsoper Unter Den Linden, our dear Madge Kozena rawking teh haus (the opera is made even more precious by the fact that the maestro has written the second act after the terrible illness that struck him in 2005 and left him in a coma for two months).
We're so excited we're actually considering a trip to Germany to catch that. Or to Bruxelles.