Behind the scene book Opera Ballet Flanders

the book is here, what a nice trip this was

"This book gives a picture of Opera Ballet Flanders anno 2024, in text and image, and at the same time it casts a glance into the future. Come face to face with our team, take a look behind the scenes and discover the magic of our artists and productions, even before they are on stage. Photographer Koen Broos walked in the wings of OBV for several months and captured the activity there."

the book is available at the ticket office of the opera houses
 
photography koen broos / design britt helbig / printing stockmans art books / publisher Opera Ballet Vlaanderen / composition maarten boussery, ilse degryse & wim van bree / translations catherine grady

see the book in video https://vimeo.com/894114771

"The Trouble with WagneR"

a new book out in the US


writer : Michael P. Steinberg, director guy cassiers voor de scale milaan en opera berlijn ,
met fotografie van koen broos


"In this unique and hybrid book, cultural and music historian Michael P. Steinberg combines a close
analysis of Wagnerian music drama with a personal account of his work as a dramaturg on the 
bicentennial production of The Ring of the Nibelung for the Teatro alla Scala Milan and the Berlin
State Opera. Steinberg shows how Wagner uses the power of a modern mythology to heighten music’s 
claims to knowledge, thereby fusing not only art and politics, but truth and lies as well. Rather 
than attempting to separate value and violence, or “the good from the bad,” as much Wagner 
scholarship as well as popular writing have tended to do, Steinberg proposes that we confront this 
paradox and look to the capacity of the stage to explore its depths and implications.

Drawing on decades of engagement with Wagner and of experience teaching opera across disciplines,
 
The Trouble with Wagner is packed with novel insights for experts and interested readers alike."


order the book
https://press.uchicago.edu/…/books/book/c…/T/bo31043646.html