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Theater
Adapting Hugo von Hofmannsthal’s play in Salzburg
Robert Carsen
The songs explode. The passion overwhelms. It’s opulent when it needs to be, fun when it needs to be, and intoxicating
Clarissa Sebag-Montefiore
The producers will, you feel, be relieved today
Alexander Larman
The original cultural punch of the 1970s production has been replaced with gaudy, empty commercialism
The Nazis saw the character as a useful tool of propaganda
Susannah Heschel