What makes an opera a success? The eccentrics, airheads, comedians, lyricists and tragedians think they know, proclaiming their point of view at the craziest moments and not even bothering to intervene in the action. Welcome to the wonderful world of Prokofiev's L'amour des trois oranges, back on stage at Amsterdam's Music Theatre this month.
At the centre seems to be an absurdist fairy tale about a hypochondriac prince who is tricked by a sorceress into falling in love with three orange...
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