The first major opera house to reopen in Europe is embracing minimalism: Singers must stay 6 feet apart and orchestras are stripped down to a piano and a single violin
WIESBADEN, Germany—When this town’s main theater stages Richard Wagner’s “Tristan und Isolde” this week, a recorded prelude will remind the audience what the composer’s opera sounds like with a full orchestra.
“It’s for people to remember that what they’re seeing is the coronavirus version,” said Uwe Eric Laufenberg, director of the Wiesbaden State Theater, the first major European concert hall to lift the curtain on its stage after a two-month pandemic-mandated shutdown.
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