Say «PMO» in any meeting and two things happen: half the room rolls its eyes — spreadsheets, bureaucracy, control mania — while the other half sees the invisible …
Paris, spring of 1867. On the stage of the Opéra stands a work in which everything is right: five acts, the finest cast on the continent, a ballet …
Silence, fire, water. Three trials decide who enters the temple in Mozart’s «Magic Flute». This week the opera turns 235. And in Stuttgart, officials have just decided to …
One sentence sits at the front of the printed season brochure that goes out to every subscriber. Before it got there, an Intendant rewrote it twelve times and …
Twelve empty squares on a wall. One year. Not a single title. On her first day in office, a newly appointed Intendant stands in front of her season …
Two opera houses. Same city, same budget, same ensemble. One can be described in a single sentence. The other has a full calendar — and no strategy. This …
Chaos wears a tuxedo today.Big visions. A wildly mixed cast. Expectations up in the gods—and the inevitable chaos backstage. Sounds familiar? Exactly.As an opera lover, I eventually realised: …
Two hundred scores on the general director's desk. Twelve nights in the calendar. The math doesn't work — and it never will. That's not a problem to be …
In Verdi's Rigoletto, a murder is planned with the precision of a logistics manager. Body in a sack, handover at midnight, everything on schedule. The delivery arrives exactly …
In one rarely performed opera, doom hangs over the stage from the very first scene. Nobody says it aloud — but the music leaves no doubt: something here …
Leporello has the most famous list in all of opera. Six hundred and forty in Italy, a thousand and three in Spain — a perfect stakeholder register. The …
The Project Charter: What a Wagner Overture Teaches About Starting RightOne chord. A hundred and thirty-six bars. Not a single word spoken — and yet everyone in the …
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